[Ardour-Users] What is to be watermarked?

[Ross Johnson]

Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 10 August 2010 at 18:56, Christian <christian at shamanbenefit.net> wrote:
>   
>> Of course, you could not get information about every single
>> startup that way, but is this really a crucial point? Seems a
>> bit of overkill to me...
>>     
>
> Not sure the sample size of volunteered information would be
> significant enough.
>   
The sample size is nowhere near as important as getting a random sample, 
which is the biggest problem I see with these schemes.
> Would it be useful to the developers to know which features are
> used in combination with each other, e.g. user 12345 clicked
> record 900 times, moved tracks 600 times, clicked undo 9.1e+6
> times, etc.?  Maybe that falls into an opt-in "phone home"
> system?
>
> Maybe allowing Ardour forum members to fill out a user profile
> would help?  I'd do that.
>   
People always appear to be very keen to list their equipment and use.