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by colesantiago 1023 days ago
I'm not willing to make an account either, I'm too scared what Modular will do with my data for privacy reasons, especially seeing that giant Google sign in button.

Hopefully, someone will and sign up so that we know Modular intends to do with our data once they collect it.

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With all due respect - scared of what? I'm genuinely curious what you're worried about. Can you give me some real world examples of a possible negative repercussion from signing up? I haven't signed up. I don't have an account, just been a curious lurker for the Mojo thing over the past couple of months.
Hi, thanks for your interest! You can opt out of telemetry if you like. Please see the FAQ here: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq.html#does-the-mojo-sdk-col...

For open sourcing, we also have a section in our FAQ: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq.html#open-source, and we answered a question about that in the latest livestream! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQh9es5gfpo

For the question on pricing, the Mojo SDK is free to use.

Disclaimer: I work for Modular

0:16 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQh9es5gfpo, says "we'll be open sourcing documentation"... by the end of the year. Documentation? It will have taken a full year to open source documentation. Congrats.
That's disingenuous. They are also open sourcing the standard library by the end of the year.
Soo maybe some "core" "parts" might be open sourced some time. Hard pass.
I bit the bullet. After singing in via google, its just a page with instructions on installing the Mojo SDK. Nothing about pricing but on their FAQ section they do talk about the telemetry data they collect and how to disable it

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq.html#does-the-mojo-sdk-col...