[mmastrac]

Thanks for replying, Daniel, but your team seems to have a major culture issue regardless and I think the defensive and somewhat random/rambling tone of your comment clearly reflects that.

I run OSX/Tenacity, not a Linux user looking for idealogical purity - just a long-time user that sees a lot of red flags on the wall with your acquisitions. Your comments in the musescore-downloader project after the legal threat were simultaneously the first red flag I was made aware of and the first time I had heard of the "Muse Group".

For a director of strategy, your strategy and how you deal with the users and fans of the software/good will you've purchased seems less than ideal to this outside observer. Good will was generated by a long-term interaction between the community and the open-source project and you've managed to squander it and apparently continue to do so.

[workedintheory]

Again, which community are you talking about, exactly?

I only know of two - the contributor community and the actual user community.

[mmastrac]

I hope you aren't suggesting that I'm not part of your user community because I don't fit in your box and dislike the things your company has been doing. Honestly, I'm surprised that someone with your position in your organization has no idea how to communicate with people that use your software.

Regardless, this has cemented my transition to Tenacity and I'll be recommending to everyone in my circle to move on from Audacity. I hope one day you'll see how you and your company are poisoning the well, but I don't hold out a ton of hope that your company isn't suffering from a seriously rotten culture and inability to admit mistakes.

Anyways, in the unlikely event that anyone is actually reading this thread, marcan's comment [1] and the legal thread [2] was my first intro to the terrible way that Muse handles acquisitions and I haven't seen anything that suggests the company is handling things any better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27005385 [2] https://archive.is/w8O3L