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No. OP argued that you should not use the software because it might phone home, and the author doesn't think the tools should phone home for any reason. Yet, wi
by nwah1 4y ago
No. OP argued that you should not use the software because it might phone home, and the author doesn't think the tools should phone home for any reason. Yet, with flatpak you can specifically turn off networking permissions just for that app, and thus remove the concern.
Also, similar concerns would exist for non-corporate software, so the corporateness is irrelevant to whether to use a free tool which you have full ability to inspect and compile yourself.
- yazzku 4y agoI don't know why you'd run a flatpak you don't trust with all that permissions micromanaging. That's the kind of thing you do when reversing malware, not when using everyday tools. The idea that that kind of flatpak even exists already portrays a very sad state of software. Corporateness is also not entirely irrelevant, since the incentives are different, and 'corporate' is highly correlated with proprietary, spyware-ridden software. Also, the author talks about corporate languages (and then throws in the tools too), which have their own different set of problems.