Canonical (does not) begin tracking Ubuntu Installations

[David Gerard]

On 15 August 2010 11:16, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:

> If you do not yet have a future OEM pre-install, but would /still/ like to
> contribute some useful (anonymous) data to Debian/Ubuntu please consider
> enabling 'popcon' (Populartity Contest) and submitting a result to the
> hardware-database (hwdb).
> Popcon helps determine which software packages to concentrate on, and hwdb
> helps to determine with hardware drivers to lobby for/work on.


Oh yes, I forgot the hardware checker!

Users should be asked expressly to opt-in to phone-home things like
this that directly help them. Not hard to explain why they should in a
sentence.


- d.