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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.
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.
Fedora is separate from Redhat for the most part. It has its own board that makes decisions
Which is made of mostly RH people.
OK your not entirely wrong but there are also community elections
The discussion thread for Fedora specifically stated that the change was requested by Red Hat, as well.
Power corrupts. Let this be a lesson in letting corporations get a foothold in open source.
Its literally opt in
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.