"Muse Group recently updated its privacy policy, promising it wouldn't sell any of the 'very limited' data it collects from users."
I am not sure which is more potentially concerning to users: that Muse is collecting info about Audacity users or that Audacity could go closed-source and/or become a paid product at some point.
You may want to actually read the privacy policy, particularly point 4: "We do not store or share any personal information."
Regarding Audacity becoming a paid product or closed source, look at the rest of Muse Group: Musescore (the notation program) is free and open source, musescoreCOM (the website) makes money. If Musescore didn't exist or was hard to access (ie paid), musescoreCOM would have way less content and thus would make way less money.
Now look back at Audacity: There's Audacity (the program) and then there's audioCOM (the website). Audacity, being the thing which has a dedicated upload button to it, is definitely the main source of content for this website.
Now, why would Muse make Audacity paid and completely cripple audioCOM with it? And what money would they make from selling it? Wouldn't people just be able to download Audacity 3.2 from literally anywhere because it's GPL'd anyway?
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.2 ms ] threadI am not sure which is more potentially concerning to users: that Muse is collecting info about Audacity users or that Audacity could go closed-source and/or become a paid product at some point.
Regarding Audacity becoming a paid product or closed source, look at the rest of Muse Group: Musescore (the notation program) is free and open source, musescoreCOM (the website) makes money. If Musescore didn't exist or was hard to access (ie paid), musescoreCOM would have way less content and thus would make way less money.
Now look back at Audacity: There's Audacity (the program) and then there's audioCOM (the website). Audacity, being the thing which has a dedicated upload button to it, is definitely the main source of content for this website.
Now, why would Muse make Audacity paid and completely cripple audioCOM with it? And what money would they make from selling it? Wouldn't people just be able to download Audacity 3.2 from literally anywhere because it's GPL'd anyway?