Registration

Registration

Posted May 23, 2007 17:58 UTC (Wed) by wblew (subscriber, #39088)
In reply to: Registration by JoeBuck
Parent article: A day at the Open Source Business Conference

However, as a *user* I see registration another way.

I see it as being put on somebody(s) marketing list(s) to receive their unsolicited marketing materials (i.e. spam).

Thus I largely opt out on the "please register your software".

Yes, I put my right to privacy ahead of their right to marketing data.

If there are two things I *love* about open source, they are:

1) usage without fee or registration

2) the ability to fix a *really* annoying bugs

PS: Yes, I have made a career of writing computer software.

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