On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Robert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:25, Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > 2010/10/20 Robert Xu <rob...@gmail.com>: > >> Maybe you could modify it to give a personal UUID for each computer, > >> so that the user > >> is not forced to register? > > > > OMG! I would have gathered at least 10 UUIDs over the last 2 years. > > Depends on what piece of hardware you want to attach the UUID to :) > > Reminds me of the Windows registration system. > > > > haha, same. :) > Er, I guess that could become a problem later... > Maybe one month every year you refresh the UUIDs by having the > software send their UUID? > That way any inactive UUIDs could be deleted.
I hope you are not serious about this. Creepy unique identifiers (or any other tracking method) have absolutely no place in a FOSS community OS.