Actually out of the loop for this one. What’s the deal with making that on by default, was there any justification?

Honestly I don’t care about the proposal. If it’s just a checkbox to untick on install then it’s not much different from what apps like vlc do.

Can we all just pretend Red Hat and its derivatives/relatives no longer exist? It’s clear that the leadership behind these projects don’t care about open source anymore. There are plenty of options for Linux operating systems that actually care about user freedom, privacy, and openness. Anything with Red Hat backing it no longer gets to claim they support any of these.

Install Debian, install Arch. If you must, install Ubuntu (though they’re not much better these days). Anything but Red Hat.

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.