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Subject: Re: BK MetaData License Problem?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
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On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 18:17, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> This whole metadata discussion leads me to another question which has
> been bothering me about BK's 'Open' Logging and hosted trees for a
> while. What is happening to all the infomation that BitMover is (or
> could gather) from people accessing the Open Logging site as well as
> the hosted repositories? There could be a lot of marketing value in
> this if BM decided to abuse it. Ie. some marketing manager could
> decide to run advertisement campaigns listing names of known
> individuals using the software.

They can do that anyway. The metadata is public. Nobody even needs to
bother Larry about it, any more than folks who trawl it for spam email
targets do

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