[Digikam-users] Greetings

[Ignatius Reilly]

Hi buddy,

thanks for your esteemed review of Digikam. In your case I can only
recommend Photoshop, which I am told is a splendid alternative to DK

I wouldn't bet that the DK community is such a hotbed of terrorists that
Gilles would have been strong-armed by the French government to open a
backdoor in DK...

Keep up the good work educating the populace
Cheers

cgw993 at aol.com thus spake on 02/09/13 20:38:
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> 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.
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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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