The conflation of “spyware” ie tracking for monetization purposes with telemetry used by developers to ensure the health of production systems is foolish and harmful.
Homebrew is a complex system that can break in lots of ways, and it’s being developed on an entirely open source basis, with no company behind it.
Having some visibility into the operation of a running system is table stakes. You’re asking the developers donating their time to this very useful project to tie a hand behind their back because you are paranoid.
More often than not, if people like you got their way OSS software just wouldn’t be built, or would be taken over by a for profit entity that has much less benign ideas about spyware.
This is literally a story about the homebrew project listening to the community and migrating to privacy-preserving self-hosted analytics. People like you will never be happy, so they should be entirely ignored.
I don't understand how command line makes the distinction here. Maybe if it where just a simple tool that doesn't require an internet connection for its functionality. But since Homebrew is not just the command line tool, but also a repository and build system in constant motion. I understand that as a developer you might want to have insights into how certain changes (will) impact the user experience.
True, the open source world never before had a repository and build systems in constant motion. Homebrew is the innovation we needed to make things in software.
Homebrew is a complex system that can break in lots of ways, and it’s being developed on an entirely open source basis, with no company behind it.
Having some visibility into the operation of a running system is table stakes. You’re asking the developers donating their time to this very useful project to tie a hand behind their back because you are paranoid.
More often than not, if people like you got their way OSS software just wouldn’t be built, or would be taken over by a for profit entity that has much less benign ideas about spyware.
This is literally a story about the homebrew project listening to the community and migrating to privacy-preserving self-hosted analytics. People like you will never be happy, so they should be entirely ignored.