Attention podcasters who use Audacity: some bad news about the new owners of this once great program. Hopefully @musegroupbrands will undo this. Until then, I'll be using something else. fosspost.org/audacity-is-no…
"The lesson to communications here – and Muse are far from the first developer to discover this – is that you might want to release the explanation at the same time if not before the confusing and potentially incendiary legalese your lawyers came up with." cdm.link/2021/07/audaci…
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I've seen many snarky tweets about this, but a few people are also calling for more of substantial critique. So I thought I'd offer some preliminary thoughts on this informed by western/social/political history.
(I'm not going to summarize the article -- too much typing -- just going to get into the issues)
First, the paper makes little effort to distinguish between perception of what people did on the "frontier" (self-perceptions, mythology) and what they actually did. Did they oppose the redistribution of land, government intervention? Were they "anti-statists" against "big govt"?