On Sunday 09 January 2022 16:51:16 E. Liddell wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 18:50:50 -0500 > > "E. Liddell" <ejlddll@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 08:35:55 -0800 > > > > William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Maybe you have not heard about the changes in audacity? It now collects > > > and shares our data. Even though it is used almost entirely offline, > > > requires no connection for actual users working at home. Audacity is > > > now at least non-free in the GNU/Linux sense of the term. > > > > If I remember what I heard about this (quite some time ago), tracking was > > included only in some precompiled versions (possibly not even Linux > > versions) on the upstream website—if you build your own copy from > > source, it should still be clean. > > Scratch this. I was confusing it with another piece of software. Versions > of Audacity from 3.0 do contain some dubious components. Curiously > enough, Gentoo is frozen on 2.4.2. > > E. Liddell Yes, and I am bummed out about this, because I use audacity to create demos & layered tracks, and mix them. Nothing else in the Linux family quite does it so well as audacity; one would have to move over to some totally proprietary software, probably the rotten Apple or maybe Windoze. I tried some of the forks of audacity, or other software that is supposed to do the same things, but none of them are as good. And the really weird thing is, audacity doesn't require a connection to do its job: it's pretty much wholly offline use, except for updates and such. There's no reason for these new "developments" except to collect more data, and to give typical corporate obfuscation in their responses to, and "clarifications" of, their new practices and polices. Why somebody cannot just copy the old audacity code, rebrand it with a different name and icons: this is beyond me. The code was totally GNU/Linux, free/libre, open source, no barriers to further development. But I am not a dev, so there could be things that I don't know. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
