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From: Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disable microsoft telemetry
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 12:58:15 -0700
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 4:55 AM Gerard E. Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:17:27 +0330, Behrooz Amoozad stated:
> >I'm not sure if this even fits here, but it would be really nice if the
> >default bashrc included DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT='true'.
> >Currently, After installing microsoft .net framework, it has telemetry
> >enabled by default and it works at least once upon installation. It
> >would be real nice if it didn't do that, anywhere, at all, not once.
> >And ONLY you have the power to make this right.
> >I don't know how many purists are left at gnu, I just hope there are
> >enough left making decisions for bash.
>
> I just read the
> <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry> page,
> and it appears that the information collected is both configurable and
> used primarily to diagnose crashes. I don't find it overly intrusive
> myself, but each to his own I suppose.

In any case, this behavior has nothing to do with GNU Bash, and thus,
does not belong in this email list. Behrooz should raise this with
Microsoft.