Firebird backward incompatibility

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 11/28/2016 04:30 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:35:59AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
>> Does anyone has considered the glaringly obvious privacy issue of
>> such scheme ?
>
> People trade privacy for convenience or the other way round all the
> time. People that in this case favour convenience can use the
> hypothetical web service. People that favour privacy can follow the
> instructions at
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Base/FirebirdSQL#Older_Firebird_databases
> (which the web service should point towards for information).

The website should at least make the privacy implications of using that 
service very clear.  That may be stating the obvious, but it's not 
always obvious what users consider obvious.