On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:26:49AM -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote: > On 10/20/06, Brian Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What's the tracking issue about? > > It's apparently quite long and involved, but Linux Weekly News has the > full story: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/203694/
Thanks for the pointer. Condensed version: The Fedora project wanted a better idea of how many installs of Fedora are out there, and floated the idea of putting a visible 'web bug' on the default web page installed with the web browser. This would let them get a very rough idea of usage from ip addresses in their web logs. A vocal group objected to this with much heat about being 'spied upon'. Fedora has withdrawn the request. It seems a minor concern to me - if you get updates then Fedora can track your ip, but it really brought out the tinfoil hat crowd. More worrisome to me was a post by Greg DeKoenigsberg at RedHat: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.advisory-board/885 that seemed to suggest some jeopardy for Fedora's funding within Redhat. He later backpedaled from this, but that initial email is pretty strongly worded. I'm going to stay with FC5 until FC6 has shook out a bit (pre had some serious install issues for me), but I don't see any privacy concerns with Fedora. --Brian -- Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days. Henry IV, Part 2 Brian Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eviloverlord.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
