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Re:Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in by jcsuggestions on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:54AM (#23757803)
You could instead possibly: - move the project and ecosystem completely off GitHub - sell the project to a FAANG - go with the MathWorks model and just straight up sell closed source proprietary code (they have 5000+ employees and growing, you have ~30, maybe 40 if you count the JuliaLab that essentially work for JC as well)

As much as people in the Julia community have dunked on Matlab in the past, at least MathWorks has their business model worked out, people understand the tradeoffs being made, and the dark pattern being used is just closed source software instead of exploiting PII.

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Re:Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in by dklend122 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @12:56PM (#23761174)
How are anonymous UUIDs PII and how is JC exploiting them?

They have no special access nor do I see a first order effect that benefits them. Just that the open source Julia ecosystem will benefit and that will feed back into JC's market.

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