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To be fair, the community edition IDEs from Jetbrains are open source and any telemetry is optional.
True. But there's also the fact that eclipse is maintained by the eclipse foundation. a not for profit, I'm not sure how it works for jetbrains' CE versions. But I assume they're still handled by jetbrains itself.
shouldn't matter too much for the open source versions. But there's my 2¢