On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:54 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
Incidentally, I also think this highlights the need for a poll
of the
Pd list at some point so we can get some idea of what users are
using
what externals, abstraction sets, libraries, etc. I would love
to see
the numbers, and it would probably be useful for Miller to see
what is
popular about Pd in a quantifiable scientific way.
what about an opt-in usage statistics 'phone home'. initng does
this for example.. firefox just does it without even asking..
Funny, I was just thinking about something like that. It would be
cool to know how many people are using Pd. If you code it, I'll
include it in Pd-extended. Then maybe it could make it into devel or
MAIN.
this doesn't add any useful functionality for the user and is using
the
means of adware/spyware/activation ...
it will definitely not make it into devel as long i still have a write
access to the cvs ...
Do you think we do this because we have a secret desire to be big
brother? The whole point would be to improve the user experience.
If we know what people are using, then we can better target our
limited resources.
I am completely aware of the privacy issues. Doing this in an open-
source way helps that a lot. I don't think anyone wants to track
people. But there are well established ways of getting such data in
an anonymous way. Plus I think that we would actually increase
people's privacy by creating real working models of anonymous data
gathering that people can point to when large corporations and
governments say that it can't be done.
.hc
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