[tex-live] TL 13 -- how many maintained installations are there?

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 12:55:59 CEST 2014


2014-04-16 12:05 GMT+02:00 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
>
>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> Central user tracking is not a question of living with or without
>> guilt, ...Implementing any kind of user tracking
>>
>> may result in placing TeX to a blacklist in many organizations.
>>
>> Personally, I would opt-in to report how many installations I have on
>>
>> which platforms but not more. I am not allowed to report more.
>
>
> Thank you for moving the debate back to sound technical and
> philosophical issues, Zdeněk;  so if the TeX Live installer
> were to simply report "I have been run", and if the
> collating server were configured to record the report and
> date/time, but not the IP address from which the report
> originated, would you regard that as acceptable ?
>
It would be acceptable only if it were opt-in, not opt-out.

> ** Phil.



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