In reply to Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

Morten, it would be nice if you would stop shilling for adding forced or silent telemetry (i.e. spyware into the core of WordPress.org). If you would like to spy on users, there's all of WordPress.com available to you and Matt. If you really like telemetry, you could go and work at Microsoft on Windows 10 (MS are very big on telemetry).

WordPress.org is a platform to democratise publishing and not dependent or reporting to any third party platform. I know you guys have managed to successfully sneak some edge cases in on plugin usage. Spyware is not a path forward which many WordPress developers would support (remember us, the guys who build plugins and core code for free, see my comment to Matt above). We created and by extension own WordPress.org (that's why it's a foundation and not a private for profit company as we'd all leave if that were the case and then Automattic would not be paying for thousands of developer hours but millions). I know you are keen on math, Morten, those numbers should give you pause.