[Digikam-users] Greetings

[cgw993 at aol.com]

That is the stand by defense of software companies today, "prove we are
abusing the users".  The review is intended, not for the users that have an
interest in this software, and there are usually plenty of them camping out
on these mailing lists, but rather to the user that may simply not know that
that type of thing happens all the time.   When a company profits by spying
on and abusing the users, that is essentially theft, actually it is worse
because it is the kind of damage that keeps on damaging and the user has no
control or recourse.

 

If the internet connections are not disclosed to the  user in a clear way -
then the software package is likely doing things that  you would likely have
said no to.   The "salesmen" types camping here will try hard to convince
users that that isn't the case will not explain why the connections are
there without user consent.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: digikam-users-bounces at kde.org [mailto:digikam-users-bounces at kde.org]
On Behalf Of Neil Haughton
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 1:48 AM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power
of open source
Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Greetings

 

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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> 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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