[ale] more reasons to avoid closed source tools

[kwc at shell.TheWorld.com (Ken Cochran)]

Some years ago I was at a meeting (could've been AUUG or ALE or
GATech or something in Montgomery AL) where Steve Bellovin was
speaking on this very subject, but his illustration was gcc.
IIRC he referred to it as something like "compiler poisoning."
-kc

> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:01:25 -0400
> Subject: [ale] more reasons to avoid closed source tools
>
> 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.
> --
> James P. Kinney III