Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

["Matt Bottrell" <mbottrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/13/06, Peter Flodin <pflodin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/13/06, Erhard Sanio <erhard.sanio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there a way to circumvent that annoying attempt
> > on my privacy? Otherwise this means goodbye SuSE.
> > I would regret, but other Linux projects do not try
> > to force me to deliver my secrets to them
> >
> > sincerely, E. Sanio
I personally don't like the collection of any information.   Though it
doesn't stress me.

Here in Australia there isn't a decent mirror to use (the ones listed on the
opensuse.org site are dreadfully behind and are never updated).  As such I
manually select one that is fresh.

If a user has been smart enough to move away from Windows to run Linux as
their desktop -- they are smart enough to figure out what mirror to use...

Statistics for usage -- I can understand... though some more thought could
have gone into it.  I understand 'download' numbers are hard to collect and
in any instance -- 1 download could be installed numerous times.

Guess they are damned if they do, damned if they dont.  :(

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Matt Bottrell
mbottrell@xxxxxxxxx