Smolt: firsboot revisited

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/16/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 03:37 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:32 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 02:19 +0000, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > On 2/16/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 02:33 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 08:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't think you've ever said how the information is being sent
> > > > without user permission or what the personal data is that is being
> > > > sent.
> >
> > > The smolt developers would be the ones to reply this.
> > The smolt developers and the smolt code HAS replied to this.
>
> Yes, but this thread started with "Shall smolt be installed by default",
> so the question wasn't "opt-in/opt-out", it was "installed by default"
>
> I expressed my opinion and said: No, ...
>
> Arthur's was "how" - I said "http:" and "what"
>
> Ralf

I think "installed by default" here means that the Smolt code will be
on the install media and copied to the hard drive by default (if even
that much) - installing sends no data - the user has to choose to run
it. hence the "opt-in" . The discussion on opt-in/out ended long ago.

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