I agree with your point that we should look for a way to pay FOSS maintainers for their time, but my point was that Linux repos are not free of spyware naming t

I agree with your point that we should look for a way to pay FOSS maintainers for their time, but my point was that Linux repos are not free of spyware naming the version of Unity that sent what you typed to Amazon Shopping as an example. The line that separates legitimate features and spyware is blurry, especially when a bad default ends up leaking information of the user.