[tex-live] TL 13 -- how many maintained installations are there?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Philip Taylor wrote:
> Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>>> I do not see why this needs to be opt-in.  Why not
>>> have TLMGR (attempt to) update a remote database with
>>> anonymised usage data every time it is invoked ?  Who
>>> could possibly object ?
>>
>> While I would be happy (for my ego) to see the numbers, I object strongly.
>>
>> I despise any software that phones home, out of whatever reasons, if it
>> is not strictly opt-in.
>>
>> I will not support or implement any automatic phone-home mechanism.
>
> OK, let me re-cast the above :  "Who (apart from Norbert) could
> possibly object ?".

Me (too) and probably many others. While I would certainly be among
the first ones to opt-in to report statistics about my TL
installation, I don't like the idea of free software trying to "phone
home" by default.

Mojca