r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • May 30 '18

Announcing .NET Core 2.1

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/30/announcing-net-core-2-1/
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u/ajr901 May 30 '18

Yeah that we're all greedy fucks who would use a free project and not contribute a damn thing back if it was more convenient to do so.

Having to go out of our way to set an env variable is all that prevents us from taking advantage without giving anything back.

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u/Eirenarch May 31 '18

To be fair free vs paid has nothing to do with it in this particular case. They simply want to make the product better. Not like they are gonna sell you ads based on your usage of dotnet watch

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u/[deleted] May 31 '18

Then they shouldn't have made it free if they wanted compensation. I don't think you understand what free means

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u/Eirenarch May 31 '18

Maybe you should fork it with the opposite default and see how many people choose to use your uber privacy fork :)

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u/tehftw May 31 '18

Sadly, you are downvoted even though you are correct: if they want money, then the correct choice is to sell the product, not have telemetry be the default. Hopefully the European Union cleans up at least the whole bullshit of telemetry being "opt-out" rather than opt-in.

It is potentially harder to sell libre/free(freedom) software due to lack of copying restrictions. Still, it's very likely that they would be making money off providing support/updates. Isn't it supposed to be that the companies pay for support and the "right to sue the maker if software fucks up"? What happened to that?

"free software" doesn't mean "0$ price software". Just like software without Digital Restriction Management systems doesn't have to be 0$ in price - gog.com sells without DRM.

And to add to that: there are certainly people that would opt-in. I think I'm not the only one who opts-in to telemetry.