What a number of comments in this thread miss is that in certain business environments you cannot use software that calls home, regardless of the reasons for th

What a number of comments in this thread miss is that in certain business environments you cannot use software that calls home, regardless of the reasons for the call. Before someone says "it's open source, you can modify it", please understand that very few users of FOSS have the time and necessary knowledge to audit every single piece of code they install on their machines for compliance with company security and privacy requirements. It is my personal belief that the correct stance in these cases is one that places privacy and security at the top of the stack. In other words, nothing calls home unless the user enables it. You are not entitled to initiate any such communications without user approval just because you wrote software people decide to use. That's intrusive and entitled. It's wrong. Disclose it and obtain their permission, and then it's OK. Atom is cool, I like it.