It didn't take long to put Audacity near a crisis.
Pull request #835 caused more reaction than anything before it.
The good news, it has received 183 thumbs up votes.
Unfortunately, there are 3077 thumbs downs against it.
It's entertaining reading if you're a bit masochistic inclined:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
I'm not directly against usage tracking per se.
However, the data they want to collect would for instance not say how
many users work with a screen reader or without mouse.
The data will imho be pretty useless.
Robert
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Steve Fiddle
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity Sale to Russian Company?
Everything I've seen says that Audacity will remain free forever.
The GPL license is legally binding, so Audacity has to remain open source,
and being open source, the source code may be "forked" by other developers.
It would not make sense for them to start charging for Audacity because
anyone would be able to fork the source code and make a free version.
I think more likely is that they will derive income from "premium services",
such as licensed music / audio clips / stems (as was hinted at in their
video), but keep the app totally free (as was stated in their video).
I'm expecting that the muse group will issue a press release soon so there
will be no need to speculate.
Steve
On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 11:09, Rick USA <richardrthomas48@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:richardrthomas48@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hi Diane:
I would not worry as much about the price as whether it will remain
accessible.
There are other cautions I take but if they raise the price of some related,
new or support features that would be a common practice and likely not too
expensive.
If that is your only concern I would keep an eye on other daws and learn a
little about them just in case you ever have to switch and pick one.
When companies pick up open source projects they usually find a way to
monetize the product in one way or another while keeping the open source
license active.
Less often do they actually close out a product in favor of something else
they create in house.
This company may keep things low priced since they seemingly have done so
with other products they have picked up.
RichardRThomas
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity Sale to Russian Company?
Although the article says that Audacity will continue to be free and open
source, I wonder if this company will charge for it eventually.
Diane
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<mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of Gene
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity Sale to Russian Company?
See this article.
https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/business/audacity-acquired-by-muse-group
I don’t know anything about the source but the article looks legitimate.
The acquisition evidently has gotten little coverage yet.
Just because a company is a Russian company doesn’t meanit is disreputable.
I don’t see people complaining, nor have I ever seen a report of Fine Reader
containing malware, but it’s a Russian company and its been used by Kurzweil
and Openbook for perhaps two decades.
Gene
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Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2021 11:08 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity Sale to Russian Company?
Hello.
This is just a question. How do You know, that Audacity was sold to russian
company?
Marco
Dňa 4. 5. 2021 o 14:05 Steve Fiddle napísal(a):
It may be interesting to note that Audacity has had, and continues to have
contributing members from all over the world. If you look in the credits you
will notice that there are many "non American" names (including mine).
https://www.audacityteam.org/about/credits/
Personally I think it's great that open source software (and music, and art)
cross international and cultural boundaries. Thank goodness that everything
is not limited by Nationalistic interests.
Steve
On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 12:51, Rick USA <richardrthomas48@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:richardrthomas48@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
I have not seen any proven criminal nor political hacking activity unless
you count some folks not being able to stop them from billing them once
signed up.
Actually they could have had their bank stop payments or cancelled their
cards.
It may have just been a failure to communicate with the Russian team
members.
That said, I wouldn’t expect top notch hackers, criminal nor government ,
specialists to get caught and a music platform would be a perfect stelth
back door into U.S. related networks.
Personally I would go ahead and use their software so long as it was on a
machine no way connected to any network holding personal identity
information via a personal router setup.
Professional hackers can dance through personal networks quite easily as
well as tap into your communications with others and you would never even
know it.
There are other free or low-cost choices out there for music editing and
recording software, perhaps not free but you usually get what you pay for.
I believe the most likely problems will be the gradual reduction or
elimination of accessibility and support over time as I noted in relation to
other products they manage rather than any overt criminal nor political
hacking.
I doubt their commitment to accessibility.
Perhaps it is time for us to take another look at an accessible alternative
like Reaper or Pro Tools.
Are you Audacity Gurus aware of any other good DAW/Recording platforms which
are accessible or might be made accessible with some programming work?
Thanks:
Rick USA
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