[p49k]

A big argument/selling point of the FOSS model has always been that it's compatible with capitalism. You are allowed to sell your software and build it as part of a commercial entity; the only difference is that you have to share the source code to anyone you sell to. There's no reason any company developing FOSS can't be bought/sold.

[JeremyBanks]

Sure, but what are they acquiring?

[mnd999]

Seems like they’re just hiring the maintainer and maybe their copyrights. Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are.

Sounds like they want to connect it to their cloud services and improve the UI. They say in the comments they’re not looking to relicense and it’s hard to see how they could.

[hvis]

> Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are.

OTOH, they are probably not spending too much money as a result. While acquiring better visibility and (hopefully) more goodwill from the audio enthusiast community.

[chrisseaton]

The trademark.

[ekianjo]

Is there an Audacity company to acquire?