The audio-editing program Audacity is one of the most popular open-source software in the world. However, recent developments have threatened to tarnish Audacity’s reputation.
In April, Audacity was acquired by Muse Group, which is made up of a number of music brands, including Ultimate Guitar and MuseScore (read about the acquisition at http://bit.ly/LXF278MuseGroup). This worried long-term users, even though Muse Group promised that “the software will remain forever free and open source.” While this may have allayed some people’s fears, things took another concerning turn when a pull request appeared on GitHub (http://bit.ly/LXF278AudacityGit) for “Basic telemetry.