There are companies like Oracle where you pay them boatloads of cash despite knowing that their business is designing new and innovative ways to screw you. The

There are companies like Oracle where you pay them boatloads of cash despite knowing that their business is designing new and innovative ways to screw you. The decision to give money to companies like these are almost never technical... it's political or driven by fear or incompetence. Then there are companies like GitLab and Ubiquity. Most of their customers give them money because someone on the engineering team is discerning, persuasive, and trusted by management. These companies are not capable of pulling an Oracle without losing a significant amount of business, and everybody in the C-suite needs to understand this. Deciding to implement telemetry because everybody else is doing it is not going to fly here.