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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by dbg31415 on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:31AM (#13035955)
> Companies don't need analytics to improve software.

I was with you except this line. Data is needed to make better choices and prioritize improvements. How would you like people to collect data? Google Analytics is free, easy, and powerful. Adding the cost of buioding a KPI tracking and reporting later from scratch... simply would be too much for most open source projects.

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by kuschku on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:31AM (#13036582)
Do market studies?

Take a dozen, or two dozen, users and give them your product, let them use it, and get far more results from that?

You can even do these things for free, especially in open source many of your potential users are willing to do this.

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