Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
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Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
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Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#2Does anyone know what this means? The code is GPL v2. It has 126 contributors on github. The project doesn't seem to use copyright assignment. What has been acquired?
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#3How does one aquire FOSS software?
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#4Tantacrul who has been working with Muse Score for a while now to improve their UX will also be working on Audacity. They also plan to hire some full time devs.
Source: https://youtu.be/RMWNvwLiXIQ
Well worth watching his other videos too, even if you don’t use musical notation software. Funny and insightful commentary on software usability in general.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#5Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#6My first reaction was "oh no..". Audacity has to be one of the most beloved and widely recommended software of all time. It's not often that an aquisition like this goes well for very long.
After looking at MuseScore and UltimateGuitar, however, it looks like they are also free and have a similar aesthetic to Audacity. Maybe this will work out after all.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#7How does one aquire FOSS software?
Acquihire the maintainer.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#8How does one aquire FOSS software?
A big argument/selling point of the FOSS model has always been that it's compatible with capitalism. You are allowed to sell your software and build it as part of a commercial entity; the only difference is that you have to share the source code to anyone you sell to. There's no reason any company developing FOSS can't be bought/sold.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#9Tantacrul who has been working with Muse Score for a while now to improve their UX will also be working on Audacity. They also plan to hire some full time devs. Source: https://youtu.be/RMWNvwLiXIQ Well worth watching his other videos too, even if you don’t use musical notation software. Funny and insightful commentary on software usability in general.
OSS needs more UI/UX people, and I think Tantacrul is fantastic for this.
His twitter (https://twitter.com/Tantacrul) and youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/martinthekearykid) are full of interesting tidbits, an you can tell he's passionate about things.
Even if you don't do music/notation his video on Sibelius, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI , is ridiculously funny, but also on point.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#10My first reaction was "oh no..". Audacity has to be one of the most beloved and widely recommended software of all time. It's not often that an aquisition like this goes well for very long. After looking at MuseScore and UltimateGuitar, however, it looks like they are also free and have a similar aesthetic to Audacity. Maybe this will work out after all.
Beloved is a little too strong of word choice for me.
The UI is garbage. The plugin architecture is rough. It's difficult to workflow -- no automation is really available. Audacity produces good results, at the cost of an insanely high requirement for patience and experience. What you are actually in love with is the creative process of editing and creating audio.
As a project, audacity has languished for a long time. It has the potential to be great -- but it's not there, now.