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by pbsdp 13y ago
The crash report backtrace can be gathered on-demand, after asking the user's permission. On-demand user-approved crash reporting is not usually what people mean by phone-home 'analytics'. > But you better make a throwawa
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by pbsdp 13y ago
Sending a request to a server is explicitly and inescapably part of requesting a web page; users explicitly grant permission for that request to be made obvious to you simply by making the request in the first place. On the other hand, ther
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by pbsdp 13y ago
The data as sent to Google (or any other analytics system) contains more than enough personally identifiable meta-data as to serve as a hugely useful database for the mining information on specific individuals. Even just an IP address and d
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by pbsdp 13y ago
Asking permission to record a crash is very different than silently sending user-identifiable data to Google (or elsewhere).
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by pbsdp 13y ago
> Most users just don't care that they are anonymously being tracked or monitored. Most users don't know, because you didn't tell them. > Anon analytics make better apps. Highly debatable.
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by pbsdp 13y ago
Did you seriously just try to give jwz 'get coding' open source advice?
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by pbsdp 13y ago
jwz's blog is't a product, doesn't exist to sell a product, or to sell jwz as a product -- which is why his ugly green color scheme is fantastic. His blog's color scheme also has no bearing on evaluating actual product
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by pbsdp 13y ago
It's not really clear that Linux's market position is thanks to the GPL, or because Linux was able to move ahead in the marketplace while BSDs were encumbered by the AT&T lawsuit at a most critical point in time, or some other
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by pbsdp 13y ago
What's interesting is that while Juniper's software is proprietary, they've still contributed patches and funded dedicated upstream development. This is something enabled by not being required to share more than what they&#x2