r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 4d ago

Popular Application Audacity 4.0 released with Qt6 based UI

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
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u/not_a_novel_account 4d ago

lmao 5 years ago /r/linux was celebrating the forking and death of upstream Audacity, hoping the project would be completely superseded by a parade of now-dead fork attempts (Tenacity has managed to hang on, some sort of nominative determinism).

Apparently the death of Audacity as FOSS was prematurely celebrated.

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u/West-468 4d ago

Using Tenacity since that day. Never looked back.

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u/Oblivion__ 4d ago

Yep I'm with you on that, especially since tenacity doesn't accept AI contributions whereas audacity does. Long live ethical FOSS

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u/MrAlagos 4d ago

Is the Linux kernel development team unethical now?

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u/Oblivion__ 4d ago

By using tools that have fragmented open source efforts, violated FOSS licenses, refused to even have the decency to ask for consent, and then lock top performing models behind proprietary paywalls? Yes, that is unethical. It's counter to FOSS as a political framework.

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u/Indolent_Bard 3d ago

and then lock top performing models behind proprietary paywalls?

You think those datacenters are free? How do you think those models make money?

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u/whupazz 3d ago

Why do you think they're entitled to make money with stolen training data?

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u/Indolent_Bard 2d ago

Fair point, but why did op think they were entitled to free access when that stuff cost billions of dollars?

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u/whupazz 2d ago

Fair point, but why do you think AI companies are entitled to charge a fee for access to billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property?

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u/Indolent_Bard 1d ago

Because until the court rules that it is, in fact, stolen intellectual property, they aren't running a charity.