"Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair".
Why is this so important? It's important because a lot of that trust is ideological. I trust that the developers of 'git' itself won't be adding telemetry behind the scenes. I trust that the developers of 'cgit' won't be adding this stuff.
Because we're on the same page; despite the fact that theoretically the next commit that hits the repo could be the one that sends my keystrokes.
The first time you pull this sort of stunt you've instantly erased all of that good will and now you're forcing people to comb through your releases and conditions with fine teeth because you've shown yourself to act against user interests.
This doesn't scale.
That's why the backlash is bigger than you expect, not necessarily because of the magnitude of the change, but because you've positioned yourself as a threat.
Why is this so important? It's important because a lot of that trust is ideological. I trust that the developers of 'git' itself won't be adding telemetry behind the scenes. I trust that the developers of 'cgit' won't be adding this stuff.
Because we're on the same page; despite the fact that theoretically the next commit that hits the repo could be the one that sends my keystrokes.
The first time you pull this sort of stunt you've instantly erased all of that good will and now you're forcing people to comb through your releases and conditions with fine teeth because you've shown yourself to act against user interests.
This doesn't scale.
That's why the backlash is bigger than you expect, not necessarily because of the magnitude of the change, but because you've positioned yourself as a threat.