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> vague - telemetry is not literally "malware" and is not necessarily "spyware" - > it is usually collected anonymously, for instance - we interpret the "no > malware" FSDG section as actually "no anti-features", an even less well-defined > concept - i think we should define it formally To proclaim a complete official list of anti-feature types is a hard project and it would take time to be confident that we have got the important ones. I think it is good to start worlking on one. What is feasible to do in the short term to state officially that certain kinds of malicious functionalities are unacceptable. https://gnu.org/malware/ and other things we have published could be a good start towards this. We can work on adding whatever we find to be missing. But we must avoid saying that our list is complete so any behavior not listed is good. We should say only that "as of now we don't know of other kinds of behavior to object to." -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
