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i have to ask. the "community" like the user i was of audacity is not interested in "Accelerated development" by corporations which have their proprietary inter
by 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
i have to ask. the "community" like the user i was of audacity is not interested in "Accelerated development" by corporations which have their proprietary interests at heart.
Look at libreoffice. it is not as good as office or google docs or something else but beyond the 7.0 naming thing, the users are happy with its gradual improvements. i don't care about getting the latest and greatest. I can go to apple for that and pay a bag of cash for it. Instead i commit my time in solving bugs, much like the rest of developers. i am happy with that pace.
same for audacity. the software has been going for years at the same pace. as a user, i find that pace perfectly acceptable so when this company takes over the management and wants to run it in their idea of telemetry and not allowing children to use it and "cloud features", i suppose that calls for a fork
- deregulateMed 5y agoAs someone that is apathetic to the Google/Apple/Microsoft debate, I've never thought Apple was latest and greatest. It's definitely the flashy brand, so my endorphins go crazy when opening up their packaging, but the actual quality leaves plenty to be desired.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agom1 disagrees. still my point is, free software is fine with slow progress as long as it keeps going. we do not want corporate overlords to tell us how our free software should develop in exchange of them reaping the brand benefits or tracking users and other stuff
- deregulateMed 5y agoM1, for when you want high single threaded processing power on a mobile device, but not so much power that you would remote in to a desktop or use a dedicated GPU. So in a niche situation that I can't quite think of a purpose, it's useful. Best in class?