It is, by virtue of running on Linux.
> because I write and run such scripts.
'kay. Learn how to do Engineering and the software will come just fine. You don't need telemetry to tell you anything about scripts. You need good error reports for your users to send to you instead.
> Microsoft wouldn't suffer, PowerShell users would suffer.
So what you're saying is that Microsoft doesn't care about its users. PowerShell users should use products from better companies then.
> In this scenario the PowerShell team has been defunded or sacked. Who will the bug report go to? Who will implement the feature request?
Why were they sacked?
Oh, right, because they didn't interact with their users.
Who will the bug report go to? Clearly it's the same as before: nobody. That's a Microsoft problem.
> What difference does that make if Corporate doesn't want to fund a bigger team to fix more bugs unless it can be shown to benefit a lot of customers not just "a few" devs who raise issues?
If Corporate doesn't want to fund bugfixes and features for people who actually file bug reports and talk to you, then that's poor behavior of corporate. Why do you want to contribute to the decline of your users privacy?