[Digikam-users] Greetings

[Neil Haughton]

I have nothing to do with the DK Team, but if you don't like the way it
works in such a fundamental way, just use something else!

Apart from the unexpected internet connections, do you have any hard
evidence that DK is spying on users? Stating that evidence would carry more
weight than an unsupported allegation.

On Sep 2, 2013 9:40 AM, <cgw993 at aol.com> wrote:
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> I just installed Digikam. My review of the software so far –
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> 1. Digikam opened at least 3 separate connections the internet. Why?!  I
had to shut these connections down with my firewall.   The program
certainty does not make this obvious to any typical user.   I think there
may have been more than 3 but its late and I will search more tomorrow
before I uninstall it.    There can be no legitimate reason for this and
this was not disclosed explicitly on installation.
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> 2. Digikam does not make it easy to navigate drives/folders on the
computer to find photos.  This is the entire  point of photo management
software to begin with! It seems more designed to get the user to
relinquish control of their current photo organization to digikam.
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> 3.  To newer users of "open source".   Free software does not mean the
software will not spy on you, or do things you would resent, or anything
else the developer(s) maybe have wanted it to do.   It does mean though
that the software can be changed because the source is available.   A good
example of free software that spies on its users is Ubunto.  Users did not
like this, so a modified version was made that did not spy on the users.
Free software makes this possible. Please see Richard Stallman's youtube
video on Ubunto.
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> Profiting by spying on and data mining users data is fine I guess, as
long as the user has given EXPLICIT permission to do this every time, not
via some vague end user license agreement that nobody reads.   Digikam has
not made adequate disclosure to it's users.
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> My Digikam review Grade – F
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> Requested Modifications  - Do not spy on or data mine users photos or any
other data, or do anything else without the users explicit and clear
consent!   Allow users to easily navigate their own photos.  If spying on
the users must be a feature, THEN DISLCOSE IT CLEARLY!
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