started out as an open source project but its creator/maintainer made it closed source at version 3.5, and had closed the installer before that. This situation is how I found out about back then, as I relied heavily on FileZilla at work for maintaining our websites and at the time I was stuck on Windows there (I am now the sysadmin so I have my own Linux box there for most of my work). This didn’t directly impact the versions packaged for other OSes, nor the source tarballs, but it completely hosed the reputation of the project as a whole, especially considering at the time it was the absolute best FTP software you could get on Windows. Back in 2013 Sourceforge started bundling spyware/malware with the installer for the Windows version of FileZilla. Various forks have already been made, and a few months from now, one or possibly a few of those will come out on top as the proper continuation of the project. The new owner of Audacity might want to turn it into spyware, but unlike with proprietary software, we don’t just have to sit back and take it. This is a sad situation all around – but at the same time, it highlights the incredibly strength, resilience, and unique qualities of open source.
While Audacity is nothing more than a desktop program, its developers want to make it phone home with various data taken from users’ machines. The parent company is a multi-national company and it has been trying to start a data-collection mechanism in the software. The same company owns other projects in its portfolio such as Ultimate Guitar (Famous website for Guitar enthuisasts) and MuseScore (Open source music notation software).Įver since, Audacity has been a heated topic. The famous open source audio manipulation program was acquired by a company named Muse Group two months ago.
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