Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on Steam

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 03/06/2014 09:01 PM, Simon Budig wrote:
> Secondly I believe that we have a certain responsibility towards the
> privacy of our users. By using Steam we are encouraging people to create
> an account there, provide download statistics as well as (to an unknown
> extent) usage data. We let them generate marketing data for Valve, which
> they can use to targeted offerings to their users, depending on their
> documented gimp download.
>
> If Gimp is the reason why someone creates a steam account: do we want to
> accept this responsibility? I know that I am preaching to my friends and
> family about how to use adblock and reducing the data footprint in the
> net. For myself I am going through a lot of troubles to minimize me
> being a data source as well as being locked into certain technologies.

Your reasoning seems to imply that Steam will become the sole source for 
Gimp downloads, while as I understand it it will only be an additional 
source. Making Gimp available on Steam would not be pushing people 
towards Steam, it would make Gimp more easily visible/available to those 
people with a Steam account. And let's be modest here, Steam has 65 
millions active users, they don't need Gimp to be popular :)