However, it's not a bad thing if you don't care about that part.
#Audacity spyware software
Plus, Muse Group has been sort of shitty to the people who have spent years making this software for free. That doesn't sound unreasonable, but why the fuck should I trust Muse Group about anything? Then again, I definitely know I shouldn't trust Reddit or Google, so. In that Github thread I linked, a Muse Group employee mentioned that they use the data to get anonymous statistics about where the software is used and on what OS. Furthermore, Muse Group certainly benefit from whatever information they collect. Anonymized data is rarely as anonymous as we assume it is. They already did a few other things to piss off the Audacity community (along with the one for MuseScore, which is another open-source project they acquired) so you can imagine how pissed some people were when they saw the original, poorly written policy, and how skeptical they were when they read Audacity's clarification of the policy. They fucked up by wording it very poorly and more generally fucked up by being a company who doesn't seem to understand open-source projects and how the surrounding communities think. They need to do this because different countries/regions have different laws about what is considered personal information, how it can be collected, how long it can be stored, etc. What really set off this whole shit storm, though, is that Audacity published a privacy policy, which is something that most internet-connected software has. This means that, by default, your IP address and OS/CPU info will periodically be sent to Audacity. There's an option to turn off automatic updates, but it's turned on by default. Some people think that this is totally fine, other people think it's unnecessary. However, common does not necessarily mean good. This is a common thing to require for such a feature. This feature will require your IP address and info about your OS and CPU to be sent to Audacity. Audacity is introducing a (much-requested) feature which allows for automatic updates. Reddit is much closer to spyware than Audacity. Audacity won't be sending your audio files to the Russian government. Also, I'm getting most of my information from here: Īudacity is not spyware. I also don't like this change, nor do I like Muse Group, who are the company that "owns" Audacity.
To be clear, I am not a contributor to the Audacity project.
#Audacity spyware Patch
Whether they've done that to kill the fork or whether it's sincere time will tell, but while it remains open source, the threat of a potential fork and the fact someone can just patch out anything they don't like will hang over them and should deter the worst behaviour.There's a lot of confusion and misinformation going around, especially with people who are unfamiliar with the project and software development in general. We all remember Embrace, Extend and Extinguish and they could just be in the Embrace phase now.Īll we know is Audacity has given up the idea and the fork is therefore unnecessary at present. Doesn't mean that'll always be their strategy. That's why MS has become a little more supportive of Linux recently - because the real money's now to be made in the cloud and compatibility increases the potential user base for their cloud products at present. Businesses sometimes compete and sometimes co-operate, depending on whether they think a rising tide will raise all boats or whether they need the other boats to sink in order that theirs can rise.
#Audacity spyware driver
I don't know why Apple created CUPS for instance, but I suspect it might be because they thought a Common Unix Print Server would be more attractive to printer manufacturers to support than an Apple only print server, resulting in better driver support for Apple. Plenty of open source projects are owned and funded by companies for purposes of their own and they're not necessarily for collecting data. It's just been taken over by a company who will fund its development and it's going to get some phone home abilities, therefore the company must intend to use it to harvest data for spyware/adware purposes. It's always possible some people added 2 and 2 and got 5. They now plan to use a "would you like to send a crash report" approach instead, as some other projects do. From what I read it was only ever meant to be an optional feature to improve feedback for development (a bit like LibreOffice offers the first time you open it) and many of the developers were dead against it, resulting in a big rethink.
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