Advertorial or not... yikes
"With any luck, Audacity will soon be what we users have long loved about it – a powerful, easy-to-use audio editor,"
How did an editor let this contradictory line through? Audacity is still a powerful, easy-to-use audio editor, as Scott Gilbertson simultaneously claims and denies with this bizarre doublespeak. Audacity has not changed much in eight years because it is still one of the easiest to use DAWs available!
It would be interesting if Audacity had more robust MIDI DAW functionality (which would warrant VST plugins), but the fact that Scott goes on about VSTs leads me to believe he has never actually used Audacity for audio engineering or editing... as Audacity is not the first tool you would reach for to record via MIDI. I am speaking as someone who has used Audacity professionally in my workflow for more than 10 years. Perhaps Scott wrote this piece after an undisclosed background interview?
Really disappointed in this as I am used to better quality from Scott; it is not surprising that so many users are accusing the vulture newsroom of profiting off of this piece. Reads to me more like the team is trying to help out an embattled friend while their friend's deep-pocketed company mishandles one of the greatest FOSS projects in software history.
"We cannot allow the fact that we accept contributions from the community to become a disadvantage that prevents us from using our code in other products." - Daniel Ray, head of strategy, attempting to defend Muse's handling of Audacity (GPL software) while simultaneously claiming supreme ownership over it.
In mother Russia, software develops you!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
