On 7/5/21 2:36 PM, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Montag, 5. Juli 2021, 06:06:51 CEST schrieb Simon Lees:
On 7/5/21 7:27 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/07/2021 23.27, Mathias Homann wrote:
The audacity audio editor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)
«In July 2021, Audacity updated its privacy policy to include a clause that allowed Muse Group to collect "data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests".[14] The change was met with controversy.[15][16]»
14 "Desktop Privacy Notice". Audacity ®. Retrieved July 4, 2021. 15 "Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation" and more | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved July 4, 2021. 16 "Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice". reddit. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
Or as Neal suggested because it is open source nothing stops us from continuing to ship a version with that "feature" patched out.
Cheers
but that "patched out" version would not send a clear, strong "f*ck you" to the people behind such violation of privacy laws.
I guess the question here then is more of a is the bigger priority for openSUSE as a project making political statements or useful software for our userbase -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B