[tek818]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

I don't mind these guys asking for donations for their work. But put me in the group that doesn't like my personal and sensitive info being gathered without my knowledge or permission.

And you know, these guys have a lot of nerve anyway. Technically HTC wrote this software and they are just tweaking HTC's work. They have a lot of nerve going through such ridiculous copy protection measures on something that is supposedly free, and isn't even technically their intellectual property anyway.

I'm definitely appreciative of their work in getting us an SPL. I think we are all appreciative of it. But they are taking themselves way too seriously when they go through all of this in order to prevent people from downloading it.

If you want to get paid for your work, fine ask for a donation. But when you start REQUIRING a donation, and putting copywrite protections on it, it's no longer a donation- it's a straight up charge. And if you are going to charge us, then #1- give us some terms of service, user agreement, etc, that tells us what personal info you are gathering. I'm pretty sure that is required by law in most places. And #2- get legal permission from HTC to do this.

You can't go halfway with this. If we're being charged, then we have a legal right to hold someone accountable. And some screen name for some "hacker" is hardly good enough. If our personal info did get used in a manner that we didn't approve of, we have a legal right to hold someone accountable. And when all we have is a screen name of some internet hacker, that does not fit the bill.

You want to charge people for this- do it legally. Get a legit company that we can sue if our personal info gets used inappropriately. This whole "don't use it if you don't trust it" doesn't fly when you are paying for something. And calling it a donation to try and get around the rules is crap.

very well put!