Also, the open source projects not doing this are either have a fierce policy of no corporate interference (openbsd) or have very strict guidelines about keepin

Also, the open source projects not doing this are either have a fierce policy of no corporate interference (openbsd) or have very strict guidelines about keeping their codebases purely opensource (debian). these kind shenanigans are looked down upon, especially from a operations perspective. I want a boring operating system goddammit, without getting either grifted by a corporation (redhat/IBM) or having to deal with plain anti-user behaviour (microsoft).