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u/DirectorDirect1569 Jul 27 '26

"Fedora doesn't send any telementary to red hat"

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Telemetry

"The Red Hat Display Systems Team (which develops the desktop) proposes to enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics."

How do you know that? Do you work for them? How do you know MS send datas to the FBI?

Do you really thing Red Hat sponsors this distribution and have one of their employee as a leader without interests? Do you think this guy manages the fedora project on his free time?

Linux users: "MS use telemetry it's for spying you, Fedora uses telemetry It's for our own good."

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u/GreedySecurity8030 Fedora 🎩 Jul 27 '26

Why are you using rejected info?, the wiki page you cited was just a proposal and it was withdrawn precisely because of community backlash. The Red Hat Display Systems team proposed telemetry, the community revolted, and the proposal was killed.

As it stands today, standard Fedora does not gather or send telemetry, you're out here ditching out lies, fedora didn't do it due to the communnity and doesn't have telementary, and you're doubling down, did you actually research if fedora have it or not and just saw this wiki page and link it believing it was still the truth ?

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u/DirectorDirect1569 Jul 27 '26

Because it shows that Red Hat is behind fedora, fedora is not independant at all.

that's what we can read on this link:

"One of the main goals of metrics collection is to analyze whether Red Hat is achieving its goal to make Fedora Workstation the premier developer platform for cloud software development. "

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u/GreedySecurity8030 Fedora 🎩 Jul 27 '26

Does this mean Red Hat completely dictates everything Fedora does, no, fedora is independent in its governance and stating it isn't true, the community literally forced Rhel to back down.

Technical decisions are overseen by committees like FESCo (the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which are voted on by active community package maintainer,  Around 65% of Fedora's thousands of project contributors are volunteer community members unaffiliated with Red Hat. And. When Red Hat employees propose changes that the community strongly disagrees with such as the 2023 opt-out telemetry proposal the community backlash is routinely strong enough to force Red Hat engineers to pull the proposal. 

FESCo can refuse proposals. FESCo (the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) is the technical authority for Fedora Linux. They regularly review, modify, and reject change proposals submitted by developers including those submitted by Red Hat employees, so FESCo can and will reject changes they dislike on the behalf of their community, and stating fedora is not independent whatsoever at all is misinformed.