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Why would anyone replace Audacity? Just because they are trying to get some data? Audacity is fine

Even if it's fine now, using telemetry to make decisions is a pretty strong way to say "no power users or people with unique problems wanted."

Fedora uses telemetry. audacity sounds bad, but not all telemetry is

> Fedora uses telemetry

Which is why I don't use Fedora and am moving away from Ubuntu: telemetry is fine as long as there is 100% transparency about every single byte of data transmitted from my PC to a remote server, and I have full control to review all information sent and when it is sent without having to go through hoops to research arcane commands and read fine print.

> Fedora uses telemetry

Any chance you have details? All I can find after a few minutes of searching is [0] which was a proposal for counting installs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913955

I contribute to open source software but I don't use it to spy on people. I don't want software to spy on me either.

This article explains the missing context of this post: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/04/open-source-audac...

We don't need to. We can fork it, remove the spyware parts, and fix the license compliance issues (the newer terms of use are incompatible with the license).

Try realtime mixing and recording of 32 tracks with added software effects and MIDI sync. Ardour is industrial studio console software. Nothing to do with Audacity.

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