I hope software packagers for the various Linux distributions will disable this behavior, one or way or another, with or without the assistance of the Go developers. The official Go documentation can say whatever it wants, but in my experience the installation on Linux mostly happens via the distribution's package manager. The result would be that the software running for the majority of users will not send information to Google. It's not perfect, and won't do for some people (like me; I will remove Go and not write Go code in the future), but I think that'll remove the need for a fork for many people.