Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

> And here - although you do word it correctly - you piss off a load of people who MIGHT be on your side.

I chose my words carefully, thanks for noticing!

> If, on the other hand, you'd said "lord it over the OWNER of the device", I'd agree with you.

Happy to agree on our disapproval of vendors/manufacturers retaining "de facto" ownership on devices they sell to us and which we own "de jure". I hold my fruity-phone at arms length, with two fingers, with disgust (metaphorically speaking), knowing it would thrown me under the bus in a New York minute the moment my interests diverged from those of its manufacturer.

> My company laptop is locked up down the wazoo, and I see nothing wrong with that.
> It is THEIR device, after all. If I can't do my work as a result, I get paid for doing nothing ... brilliant !!!

Agree on the use case being a perfectly legal one. However, anyone wishing to employ me who would refuse to trust me to self-manage a machine they bought for me (and therefore legally own themselves) to our mutual benefit can fuck right off. This may mean that I'm privileged (in that I can afford to turn down work when my principles conflict with those of a potential employer), but I really really hate the concept of a "control collar", and would consider it insulting and humiliating to be subjected to it. As such, I feel that a community valuing freedom should not obsequiously aid such corporate oppression. Which is another reason I feel the "prevailing winds" of Fedora may be blowing in a direction in which I don't wish to go.

You should obviously feel free to do *you*, of course... :)

With all that out of the way, I'm done, and going back into anonymous lurking mode -- Cheers!