[majorhelmet]

Look, I hate large corps too but this paranoia hinders open source's ability to self-cooperate.

> Telemetry coming from this IP, so company x is using go. A pattern of data coming every 2 days, so their build nodes rebuild every 2 days.

Not true. Even if Google lied about collecting IPs, the data would be sent only every ~ year with aggregated counts so no real time usage data. And even if one could see the patterns from the data, everyone will be able to, not just Google.

Let's not trust Google. But let's not shoot ourselves in the foot by refusing any automated cooperation.

Additionally, majority of distros use package managers, so if any of the major promises of the upstream would be broken, distro packages could patch it out. This isn't forced, there are several points where anyone can stop the telemetry.

[Brian_K_White]

How is it paranoia to simply propose that Google give us the same thing they want us to give them?

If they don't want to do that, why exactly not?

Paranoia is imagining something. This is posing a question that they or you or anyone is free to simply answer, or fail to.