[Digikam-users] Greetings

[Gilles Caulier]

2013/9/2  <cgw993 at aol.com>:
> Greetings,
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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.

It's probably Geo-location feature through GoogleMaps or OpenStreetmap.

How did you check these internet connections ?

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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.

Really ???

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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

Who are you exactly to judge this project and this team ?

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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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I will not review this review anymore, from somebody who don't want to
learn how work the software, and write a mess and a dummy analysis of
a long time open-source project...


Gilles Caulier