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   Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 14:07:19 JST Adrian Cochrane

   • David Gerard

   @davidgerard From their discussions, I gather the accusation is that most of the objectors don't actually have a stake in Go.

   I'm sure there's some truth to this, but at the same time I anecdotally see some objectors who do use Go. Not everyone who has a stake engages when they're happy with how the project's going, so determining to what degree that accusation is true is extremely difficult.

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     Harald Eilertsen (harald@hub.volse.no)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 14:07:17 JST Harald Eilertsen

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     @Adrian Cochrane The thing is that a lot of software written in Go will be deployed using the Go toolchain. As a sysadmin or regular user that just happens to install the occasional app using Go, I'm probably less inclined to even be aware there's something to opt out from.
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     CEO of Anti-Clock Society (be@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 14:08:11 JST CEO of Anti-Clock Society

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     • David Gerard

     @alcinnz @davidgerard Everyone has a stake in the normalization of opt-out telemetry.

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     Björn Lindström (bkhl@social.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 14:09:21 JST Björn Lindström

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     • David Gerard

     @alcinnz @davidgerard I had just kind of gotten around to accepting a plan to start a rewrite in Go at my day job. The alternative is C# and I had just barely been convinced that Go was the least nasty alternative, when this happened.

     That said I still think Go seems more likely to survive as an open source fork than C# if/when the company abandons it, so it may still be the alternative that's the least likely to be a waste of time to learn here ...

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