On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 21:41 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
I'd recommend that everyone disable those options if they value
their
privacy.
Or just switch to a sane browser, such as Konqueror. It's really
outrageous
that this kind of "phoning home" is tolerated in Free Software.
"Phoning home" has a legitimate purpose, and has nothing to do with the
freedom or otherwise of the software. What is intolerable, as Arthur
says, is that it should be turned on by default, but even that isn't a
licensing issue but a privacy one.
poc