It seems to me against the spirit of Open Source software to attempt to monitor distribution. We could ask R to 'call home' on first use (in the way e.g. pine does) but I suspect many users would find that objectionable.
-- Brian D. Ripley (in a discussion about trying to estimate the number of R users)
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