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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by cup-of-tea on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:10PM (#17210900)
That code you mentioned has opt-out spyware. It's not in the spirit of free software at all. It's just part of embrace, extend, extinguish.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by the_trapper on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:15PM (#17211687)
Microsoft has never been about free software.

They are however embracing open source in a manner that feels very sincere to me.

For the record, the so-called "spyware" is telemetry which exists only in the SDK for .NET Core and not the actual runtime that you would ship to the user with the software. It is anonymous data, completely open source so it really is only what they say it is, and the first time you use it it tells you how to disable it.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by cup-of-tea on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:09AM (#17213016)
> so-called "spyware" is telemetry

Doublespeak.

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