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    <B>Marc Par&#233;</B> 
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    <I>Fri Oct  8 21:32:34 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Le 2010-10-08 15:04, Tux99 a &#233;crit :
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</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Quote: Florian Hubold wrote on Fri, 08 October 2010 15:46
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> What would be interesting is to count the mageia installations. Create
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> a GUID for every system at install time, and then later on when
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> internet
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> is available, count the machine via this GUID.
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> WDYT?
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</I>&gt;<i> No way, that's way to Orwellian, it would give Mageia a really bad
</I>&gt;<i> reputation.
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</I>&gt;<i> A rough count of installs can be done by counting the number of unique IPs
</I>&gt;<i> accessing the updates, of course this won't be precise (proxies, etc) but
</I>&gt;<i> it should give a rough estimate, there is no need for precise numbers.
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I agree, in this case a rough count is good enough.

We all remember the Intel ID system where you could be identified at 
chip level through the BIOS. Scary business. A distro could have denied 
you installation just based on your chip ID.

Marc

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