• simple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But for real though, they had to know that having telemetry be on by default wasn’t going to look good for the open source community.

    • DishonestBirb@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Especially with Red Hat’s current shenanigans that just recently happened. I can’t see how anyone thought this was a good idea OR good timing for it.

      • Erik@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That’s too harsh imho (the power corrupts thing). Telemetry can be very useful (see how Mozilla lately solved a bug in Firefox related to a specific version of the Linux kernel) so I’m willing to believe their intentions were right. But I agree it’s not a smart move and better to have made it opt-in taking the target audience of the distro into account.