On 19 June 2017 at 13:23, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@ntnu.no> wrote:
> Definitely an opt-in. We must be able to trust that we can use LyX for > confidential stuff. > Personally I'd even prefer (regular) LyX versions to not even include code for "capturing and uploading telemetry". >From a practical point of view, I also doubt we'd anyway have the resources to properly manage and analyse such statistics. Regards, /Christian > Also, I do not want LyX to hang/delay because "some networking problem" > interferes with such communications. I have had enough such problems when > starting LyX, and LyX decides to open (or perhaps just stat() ) the > "Recent" files - but some of them are on a broken file server that cause > 2min TCP timeouts. > Excellent points by Helge, although off topic. I've suffered from this on Windows with other software.
