- DarkAudacity, was mostly a fork by Audacity's own lead dev for experimenting on things which might be too disruptive or polarising for the main project, that ended up being largely reincorporated in Audacity
- After acquiring the project, Muse Group drafted a proposal to add invasive telemetry and age restrictions, this led to a few forks and ultimately a reversal of course; soon after the privacy policy changed to add notes about personal data extraction to Russia and the USA, there was more outcry and this was reverted as well
And even after that won't the company itself have to start putting telemetry and stuff themselves since prexisting maintainers definately won't do that. It feels pretty much like a Hostile takeover than acquiring. How do they even benefit from it
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#EGCS_f...
And to an extent Emacs (Xemacs), although the relationship there is more complicated.
Although people secretly created the company month ago, the first public hint of its existence showed when someone inadvertently mentioned being bound by an NDA. Which raised questions that they could not answer... because they were bound by an NDA.
That was in July 2022.