Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

I think you'd find more interest and sympathy by solely identifying and voicing your technological issues and avoiding the digs at people who're doing the work.

The armchair quarterback analogy is somewhat apt here. Producing an open source project can be a spectator sport if you're content to watch and accept what comes out of it. Otherwise, suit up and play or coach, or carry water buckets, whatever, if you want a voice. If you want ultimate control, buy a team. Of course buying a team is out of reach for most people, but so is providing all the infrastructure and people time to produce Fedora.

I could go on at length with this analogy, but suffice to say that Fedora is ultimately at the intersection of commercial and community interests and is always going to be driven in part by changing commercial requirements.

Like choosing to follow a pro sports team, there's always going to be the possibility that the owners or players will do something to disappoint you - and I don't just mean losing games or championships. I say this as someone who is originally from near St. Louis, which has lost not just one but *two* professional NFL teams to other cities in my lifetime. One hopes St. Louis has learned its lesson by now.

We are where we are with the state of open source today because the vast majority of people have been content to sit on the sidelines and hope that shouting at the owners, coaches, and players would be sufficient to influence things forever.

As you say, how long can "the community" get away with that? If you're a Cardinals or Rams football fan, only so long as you don't care what city they're playing in. If you're a vendor-sponsored project user, only so long as there's not a huge disconnect between the vendor's needs and your wants.