Their business model is supposed to be to provide access to all data, not to act as a gatekeeper and decide what sort of data people should consume. I don't think your comparison to Google is at all analogous to what is going on here.
They're not acting as a gatekeeper in the strict sense of the word, because T-Mobile is allowing customers to opt-out of the zero-rating services and have the data count against their data buckets.
Most issues with gatekeepers are what they don't allow people to consume; in this case, they're not placing a restriction.
If people wish to stand their ground on principle, this particular carrier is giving them the option to do so by opting completely out of the program (at least according to the article).
Who says their business model to provide access to all data equally. That certainly hasn't been the way they've operated. The used to charge tons of money for text's data while voice data was considerably cheaper.
You can keep doing everything all the coding that you've doing on the windows side. Just set up a shared folder which will instantly update the virtual box. Keep one terminal tab open that's ssh'd into the box, and just switch over to that tab when you want to run anything.
