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2021-07-05 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:09:17PM +0200, Kjetil Matheussen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:32 AM Andy Farnell > wrote: > > Following the lamentable tale on HN, it seems audacity, a stand-alone > > What does HN stand for? Hacker-News (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) is a popular tech

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] OFFTOPIC: Audacity

2021-07-05 Thread Kjetil Matheussen
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:32 AM Andy Farnell wrote: > Following the lamentable tale on HN, it seems audacity, a stand-alone What does HN stand for? > edtiting. Running an old copy of CoolEdit98 under Wine or Roger > Dannenberg's Snd reminds me what a real audio editor should feel > like. Snd

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] OFFTOPIC: Audacity

2021-07-05 Thread Andy Farnell
I've said here and in other forums, there's much naivete around project governance in OSS. The FSF (hopefully in its refreshed configuration) really could offer some advisory guidelines. In today's predatory environment even sole developers need to think defensively around trademarks, patents,

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] OFFTOPIC: Audacity

2021-07-04 Thread Christof Ressi
Indeed. This GitHub issue is very enlightening: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/880 Nobody knows who Muse Group really is. Their website doesn't even have an impressium: https://mu.se/ What seems to have happened is that Muse Group bought the Audacity trademark, made all

[PD] [PD-announce] OFFTOPIC: Audacity

2021-07-04 Thread Julian Brooks
Bad stuff ongoing with Audacity: https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/ Jb ___ Pd-announce mailing list pd-annou...@lists.iem.at https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce ___