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GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:25 am

Can someone explain in layman terms how Muse 'acquired' audacity in the first place? It's obviously open software so anyone can get the code and publish their own version (forking it) but how does one group gain control of the main 'official' branch?

Cheers.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:50 pm

There might be rights on the name… For sure for the domain..

DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:36 pm

kingozrecords wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 10:58 pm Brave now has telemetry. I noticed that and turned it off in settings. I found that the checkbox existed surprising a bit, but not to a huge extent. It's fast and comfortable to use, hard to find anything perfect.

Maybe the check box is just a placebo

kingozrecords · Post by **kingozrecords** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 5:04 am

DarkStar wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:36 pm
kingozrecords wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 10:58 pm Brave now has telemetry. I noticed that and turned it off in settings. I found that the checkbox existed surprising a bit, but not to a huge extent. It's fast and comfortable to use, hard to find anything perfect.
Maybe the check box is just a placebo

Maybe if I press it... And others do also It won't help them somehow make millions of dollars, yeah.

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 8:56 am

This is the first I'm hearing about this. Thanks for the heads up. Guess I'll stick with an older version of Audacity or just use Ocen Audio for some quick editing.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:08 am

I read that version 3.0.2 is ok (in the links posted in this thread) because it is before all the acquisition happened(?)
I have two versions in Linux, but the numbers and licenses are confusing.

AsPeeXXXVIII · Post by **AsPeeXXXVIII** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 10:30 am

EnGee wrote: Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:08 am I read that version 3.0.2 is ok

3.0.2 is okay, yeah. The telemetry stuff is to be introduced in 3.0.3.

I'm still not a fan of how they went about announcing the whole thing, but eh.

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 11:59 am

Story goes that Muse turned it into spyware, and the community backlashed. One of the guys (who i suspect was involved with the original project) forked it, and it would compile, but there was no gui. when he reached out for gui support and called the forked version "tenacity" some of the 4chan crowd got weird and started showing up at his house, so he quit the project and handed it back over to muse.... That's where we are at, and why we can't have nice things.

codec_spurt · Post by **codec_spurt** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 11:02 pm

kjlkj

CrystalWizard · Post by **CrystalWizard** » Sat Jul 10, 2021 11:19 pm

It’s a very strange story, as much as i’m disgusted by musegroup, the bit about 4chan rejects cutting the guys arm (?) is weird. There’s on going coverage at the Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/ ... arassment/
It’s worth checking the comments at the Register btw.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:03 am

Who is 4chan?
Reading the comments made me feel Déjà vu! Maybe in some JRPG and Visual novels!

gnu23 · Post by **gnu23** » Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:22 am

EnGee wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:03 am Who is 4chan?
Reading the comments made me feel Déjà vu! Maybe in some JRPG and Visual novels!

Wikipedia on 4chan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan

..or, more succinctly, a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

It spawned 8chan, then 8kun, and the whole QAnon movement.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:27 am

Thanks! I'm reading now! I thought it is just a name similarity! Oh well, small world it seems!

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:31 am

CrystalWizard wrote: Sat Jul 10, 2021 11:19 pm It’s a very strange story, as much as i’m disgusted by musegroup, the bit about 4chan rejects cutting the guys arm (?) is weird. There’s on going coverage at the Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/ ... arassment/
It’s worth checking the comments at the Register btw.

LOL! Sorry, that's all a bit nuts and, TBH, I don't know, nor care, who I believe.

It doesn't really matter what happens next, a lot of people will just never install audacity again. Terrible name anyway. Any fork that ditches the name and anything close to it, including tenacity or sneedacity, and makes it look less fugly is likely to gain some traction at this point.

No_Use · Post by **No_Use** » Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:55 am

GaryG wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:25 am Can someone explain in layman terms how Muse 'acquired' audacity in the first place? It's obviously open software so anyone can get the code and publish their own version (forking it) but how does one group gain control of the main 'official' branch?

Cheers.

I'd like to know too.

Is Audacity now Spyware? And why is It ‘PG-13’? (Post from synthtopia.com)