These kinds of &quot;features&quot; are a problem for open source, and I don&#x27;t know that they are a good idea in general.<p>It&#x27;s nice to know how and where your software is being used, but in many environments call-home functionality and auto-update functionality are non-starters.<p>Any non-user initiated network activity should be explicitly agreed to and available to be easily stripped.<p>We can and should do a better job with open source software than closed source would-be competition.  Even if you aren&#x27;t a privacy advocate, privacy is a priority of a significant amount of the technical community.  It&#x27;s significant enough that it should be addressed as a forethought to features like this, not an afterthought.<p>Things like this pop up as negative news entries that people gloss over.  The guy who makes the snap decision &quot;don&#x27;t use brew, it phones home&quot; today could be a CTO who never had that opinion changed three years from now.