I think this question would benefit from a wider audience.  As I said in 
the code review [1], I don't think our drivers should have default 
enabled phone-home functionality in the upstream repository.  A vendor 
is certainly free to change this in a packaged version, but I think our 
defaults confer information about how we think about our users and I 
tend to want to put them first.  I'm happy to hear other opinions on 
this.  I did bring this up with the TC on IRC when it came up, it may be 
that we have a better consensus on such things across projects.  I'm 
eager to hear other thoughts.