Security News > 2021 > July > The Audacity! How to wreck an open-source project and anger a community
Now, prior to this, you may or may not have heard that the Audacity developers were toying around with adding telemetry to collect data from users.
"All your personal data is stored on our servers in the European Economic Area. However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA.".
"To our staff members. We take precautions to allow access to Personal Data only to those staff members who have a legitimate business need for access and with a contractual prohibition of using the Personal Data for any other purpose."to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary as a matter of applicable law or regulation, or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights;.
This is a slap in the face to the open-source community that has spent years using, promoting and improving Audacity.
If that's the case, then this is an exercise in how not to acquire an open-source project.
This example of Audacity being purchased is a perfect illustration of how to wreck an open-source project without really trying.