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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by IshKebab on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:29AM (#27745552)
Has it though? What are the red flags? The only thing they've done wrong IMO is using Google Analytics and they changed that pretty much as soon as this whole thing started.

The telemetry has always been opt-in (though they didn't communicate that very well) and their privacy policy is just standard stuff.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by SquishyPanda23 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:42AM (#27748383)
I haven't been following it closely, but in another thread on Audacity earlier today there was a threat by the Muse group saying that it was illegal to use their public API to download public domain content and that they would collaborate with China to physically track down developers who posted code that used the API. Or something like that.

Again I haven't followed it. Honestly it looks a bit to me like the playbook you see when a project is sold to a private equity firm.

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