This is aimed at that segment of entitled users who feel like OSS projects somehow owe them the world even when they don't contribute to the project in any meaningful way other than usage. To clarify, this does not apply to reasonable discourse that is common in most OSS communities. Fork it and give maintaining widely-used OSS a try. They are being transparent about their data use policy and people crawl out of the woodwork to complain they are being slighted somehow because the project is not being managed in exactly the way they want. For the past two decades, Audacity has built and maintained a following as a capable and free audio editing. The Audacity community doesn't owe anyone anything outside the terms laid out in the license. Audacity Open Source Audio Editor Called Out As Spyware Following Ownership Transfer. Good luck finding something as free and transparent as a GPL licensed software project. If you can't fork it because you lack the skills, then learn them or use something else. Seriously, if you have concerns about what Muse Group is doing and how they are doing it, fork it. It has outshined every other audio editing software in the market. Name anything else in life that is high quality, given away for free, open to any edits from anyone, and where you can take it as a starting point to your own thing if you don't like the direction a current maintainer is taking something in. by CMUSE Open Audacity Audio Is Not Spyware Ever since its launch in 2000, Audacity has become one of the most popular audio editing software programs in the world. The level of entitlement of certain segments of consumers of OSS never ceases to amaze.
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