[Lazarus] Lazarus platform "popularity contest"

[Ger Remmers]

On Thursday 12 August 2010 02:20:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Ger Remmers wrote:
> > To be brutally honest, I don't like any form of "ET, phone home" things
> > in a program.
> 
> I agree, and I also don't like mandatory registration.
> 
> > Why not?
> > Because it is nobodies business [how / if / what for] I or anybody else
> > uses the compiler. It has been put out there as open source, no strings
> > attached.
> 
> Very true, but it /is/ in your interest to make sure that the developers
> are aware, in some structured way, what facilities you're using.
> 

I understand what you are saying, but no, it's none of Florians business 
(sorry Florian) to know what I'm using, or how I''m using it.

> If you say what widget set etc. you're using in the ML then it might be
> overlooked, there's definitely no easy way to mine info like that. If
> you put it on a bug report then it's possible to mine info from people
> who've reported problems but not from those who haven't. And so on.

I fully understand the dilemma, but to me it's my interests first and screw 
the rest. If I have something to [whine / bitch / complain] about I will do so 
in here

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Regards

Ger