The Qt Group Launches Qt Insight

[Barnacle]

Rather miffed at this fallacy of spying on users to get "usage data". Just test your software yourself, it's called dogfooding. You shouldn't need to send data about my every mouse click to make common sense decisions.

Corporate users, ie: the people who actually pay for Qt, don't care. I suspect this only gets used by corporate Qt users, to make GUI clients to only be used by other corporate users in the same or different companies. Even if it's some kind of tablet device running Qt, it is probably still just some highly corporate thing that end users will not see. The proprietary commercial desktop and smartphone apps using Qt were going to track you anyway, if not with this, something else.

[lowflyer]

That's the ultimate bait for ivory tower IT managers to get them hooked to buy into Qt. Whenever they were reluctant to buy that "shady useless open source stuff" - THIS will get them! Tons of fresh users' data is akin to their wildest wet dreams.

To all the normal ground floor hackers: use the hints to Qt Insight wisely.

[mcirsta]

Free and open source software - now with free surveillance built-in. Only the analysis is not free.

It's a feature for the commercial customers that want such a thing. For open source you can't use it anyway and even if you could no one makes devs use this, it's very much an optional feature.