[ale] more reasons to avoid closed source tools

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

Brings to mind "Reflections on Trusting Trust"

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/visual-cpp-telemetry
>
> So using Microsoft compiler inserts a call to a "telemetry" function
> without it being in the code at all.
>
> Yeah. Nice.
>
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