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by counternotions 1076 days ago
> One of the main goals of metrics collection is to analyze whether Red Hat is achieving its goal to make Fedora Workstation the premier developer platform for cloud software development. Accordingly, we want to know things like which IDEs are most popular among our users, and which runtimes are used to create containers using Toolbx.
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How is that any of their business? Usually there is a lot more misdirection in what potential benefits telemetry will yield. Not, “We would really like to know what software is running in their machine, there is probably something we can do with it”
Also have they thought of just... Asking their users which IDE they use?