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How we are building Audacity 4

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Re: How we are building Audacity 4

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Post by cowboylowrez »

brudgers wrote: post #25
cowboylowrez wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah I think audacity just got dinged by its association with musescore, but its probably a good idea to watch out who you associate with. I like audacity but I try to stick with the earliest version that still runs, my current version is like 5 years old or something and it does what I need.

The author of the comment to which you responded is head of both Musescore and Audacity. They also made the fine video.

He's probably aware of all the issues then, it'd thus be ok to just hide my comment, I don't mind. I will say that everytime I read about the musescore/audacity/guitar-whatever-it-is stuff it makes me want to find an earlier version of audacity, I might run out of versions at some point haha

Re: How we are building Audacity 4

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Post by Klonoar »

brudgers wrote: post #27
macarc888 wrote: post #26

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It's not quite that simple. While the codebase is open source, the website could provide binaries that were not built from the open source code (e.g by patching to add tracking). So it is necessary to trust Muse Group if you're installing from the recommended source (which the vast majority of users will be doing). Even if there is no tracking at the moment, there is always the worry that Muse Group will "go bad" and…

It cuts to the core of what we actually want from free software Mostly people want free as in beer and actual users of Audacity use Audacity because they want to process audio. it does make me slightly uncomfortable Then you have a choice to make. There are many other audio software packages with a variety of tradeoffs to choose from because everything is not for everyone. make money for Muse Group To me the strategy…

Whether it’s a violation of GPL or not doesn’t have anything to do with the matter in question.

Re: How we are building Audacity 4

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Post by knowitnone3 »

brudgers wrote: post #25
cowboylowrez wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah I think audacity just got dinged by its association with musescore, but its probably a good idea to watch out who you associate with. I like audacity but I try to stick with the earliest version that still runs, my current version is like 5 years old or something and it does what I need.

The author of the comment to which you responded is head of both Musescore and Audacity. They also made the fine video.

and how are you tied to these groups with their "fine video"

Re: How we are building Audacity 4

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Post by knowitnone3 »

Tantacrul wrote: post #13
knowitnone3 wrote: post #9

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GPL doesn't guarantee you security in any way, shape, or form nor is a privacy policy.

You're right. Neither of these things are proof of honesty but to be clear, I would never work on a project that collects or misuses user data. This isn’t really a matter of “taking my word for it,” either. If anything like that were happening, it would be visible in the codebase, which anyone can look through (and many have). The app simply can’t transmit data without explicit instructions in the code. Audacity does…

"Audacity does not store any personal information of any kind, and never did."

That's a claim we'll never truly know. Also, one auto-update will ruin your day.

Re: How we are building Audacity 4

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Post by brudgers »

knowitnone3 wrote: post #33
brudgers wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of the comment to which you responded is head of both Musescore and Audacity. They also made the fine video.

and how are you tied to these groups with their "fine video"

I posted the fine link.

And use the fine software.

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