I've attempted to convince maintainers in the past to not do user-hostile things [0]. They seem to think they are entitled to a record of how I use their software on my own systems.
It's not clear to me why they would think this, but I think it is because you always get this if you offer software as a service and many people have been involved in working on these projects, despite the vast majority of software not being offered this way (indeed, 96% of IT is on-premises spend [1]). I think the people who have worked on these projects have carried this attitude of usage information is their information over to other domains, without realizing that they are different domains.
It's not clear to me why they would think this, but I think it is because you always get this if you offer software as a service and many people have been involved in working on these projects, despite the vast majority of software not being offered this way (indeed, 96% of IT is on-premises spend [1]). I think the people who have worked on these projects have carried this attitude of usage information is their information over to other domains, without realizing that they are different domains.
[0] https://github.com/matthewmueller/joy/issues/79 [1] https://siliconangle.com/2020/11/30/exclusive-aws-chief-andy...