Although some of them are very important and followed by masses, the ones that should be ‘upset’ are Fedora users and contributors, because it’s their distro at stake.
That said, the damage on image is very deep and if this passes as is Fedora WILL be called evil and named the spyware distro. Jeez, I believe some of them will call it evil even if this will not pass anymore.
Currently, I see a major point of conflict for the debate, with two points of view:
- Data is so important to us that we don’t have problems implementing an opt-out system that will be seen as evil
- Data is important, but we cannot supersede the moral aspect: let it be optin
I am not putting here anything else because what will matter most to Fedora image is not how telemetry will be implemented or what will be collected, but the opt-in/opt-out dilemma. And I believe that if Fedora eventually takes the opt-out path then it should be well aware that this will cause troubles with user trust across the Linux community, something that cannot be recovered, probably ever.