> Do you really think IBM cares enough about Fedora to mandate the insertion of telemetry, possibly upsetting everybody at Red Hat that works on it?
Yes, I think that's well within the realm of possibility. IBM bought Red Hat for some reason, so they obvious care quite a lot.
I'm not saying they're actually doing this, of course. I don't know. But we're talking about large corporations here, so suspicion seems warranted.
> It seems so much more likely to me that the Fedora team just wants telemetry data (which is very standard in the industry) for decision making, exactly as they said.
I think this is true! Both things can be true.
Standard in the industry, though? No. It's standard in the commercial software world (which is one of the reasons why I avoid commercial software), but it's not standard in the FOSS world.
The reason why I object so strongly to these sorts of moves from Fedora (and other such outfits) is because there's clearly a strong effort being made to normalize this in the FOSS world, and I think that would be tragic.
Yes, I think that's well within the realm of possibility. IBM bought Red Hat for some reason, so they obvious care quite a lot.
I'm not saying they're actually doing this, of course. I don't know. But we're talking about large corporations here, so suspicion seems warranted.
> It seems so much more likely to me that the Fedora team just wants telemetry data (which is very standard in the industry) for decision making, exactly as they said.
I think this is true! Both things can be true.
Standard in the industry, though? No. It's standard in the commercial software world (which is one of the reasons why I avoid commercial software), but it's not standard in the FOSS world.
The reason why I object so strongly to these sorts of moves from Fedora (and other such outfits) is because there's clearly a strong effort being made to normalize this in the FOSS world, and I think that would be tragic.