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    On the one hand they should be paid for there work. On the other hand that’s not the right way to get paid for work.

    They should ask for donations and sell cool merch

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      that’s not that right way to get paid

      I don’t know a whole lot about what Audacity is up to these days, but the same company owns MuseScore, and it sounds like they’re doing kinda similar things in terms of monetisation. The core software itself is still free, but there are optional cloud services on top of that which you can pay for.

      I don’t see what’s wrong with this. Cloud services provide a convenience. Some people like that convenience and are willing to pay for it. Others might be perfectly ok doing it themselves and won’t pay.

      It helps that the new head of design for both of these products is a guy who really knows his shit. He’s already taken MuseScore from an application that nobody in their right mind would use if they could afford the commercial competitors, to a legitimately great music engraving application, and he’s been on Audacity too since 2021.

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        The problem lies in the fact that these services are completely proprietary and are an example of service as a software substitute.

        Foss should encourage privacy and freedom. Cloud storage doesn’t normally do that. What’s worse it it often requires non free libraries to be included which is a no no

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          Foss should encourage privacy and freedom. Cloud storage doesn’t normally do that.

          Then don’t use it? It’s that simple. If it makes money for them and some users like it, there’s nothing wrong with that.

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              It’s free software so you can get rid of it if you want. It’s not really for the users of a free software project to dictate the direction the project should take, perhaps unless they have made substantial contributions

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        It helps that the new head of design for both of these products is a guy who really knows his shit. He’s already taken MuseScore from an application that nobody in their right mind would use if they could afford the commercial competitors, to a legitimately great music engraving application, and he’s been on Audacity too since 2021.

        I tried Audacity before that and couldn’t migrate from adobe’s aquired CoolEditPro (Au versions before modern redesign). Have it changed much since then? I’m yet to find an alternative (video editing tools just doesn’t make it, although they get recommended) and as I can recall Audacity had an interface that’s not as easy to use.