On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:18:38PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The part that I find more interesting is the "emergent evil" thing. > > Somehow the techies found that it is OK to do that and they did, > > in the best of their intentions. > > I'm not surprised: it's quite common to want to get some kind of > information about how your program performs (i.e. things like profiling > your code), and it's often hard to get a good view of that with > artificial local tests, so there's a strong motivation to try and do > that profiling on "in real life". Yes, but... letting your compiler plant bugs into someone else's software to phone back to *you*... chutzpah. Had to be Microsoft. > Emacs's tradition is to be quite conservative when it comes to > initiating network connections, but nowadays many if not most > applications have some kind of "call home" functionality (e.g. to check > if there's a more recent release). It's absurdly considered normal. Emacs hasn't the kind of culture which would approve of something like that willy-nilly. That's what I appreciate about it. Cheers - t
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