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It’s a little baffling the Atom team can’t seem to understand this is a bug. I get that the tone of the report is a little off-putting, but a bug is a bug. Fix
by jmull 7y ago
It’s a little baffling the Atom team can’t seem to understand this is a bug. I get that the tone of the report is a little off-putting, but a bug is a bug. Fix it and move on.
- sneak 7y agoThey don't want to understand it, because understanding it would mean that a big chunk of their userbase could download and use the software, see the opt-out panel, opt out (because really, who wants to be spied on?), and they would receive no information whatsoever about it. That's what they're trying to avoid. It's not about the user convenience benefits of autoupdate, it's about their metrics panel and the "success" it implies going dark/trending down.
- BurnGpuBurn 7y agoWhich raises the question: Is Atom a true open source project or a Microsoft business venture masquerading as an open source project? I've had similar discussions about Mono.
- sneak 7y agoYou don’t get to gatekeep “open source project” on business venture or not. If it has a free software license and the code is provided, it is a true open source project. Simply being an “open source project”, however, unfortunately, does not mean that the maintainers are going to act ethically or not produce software that abuses people’s human rights.