Episode 279 - The audacity of Audacity: When open source goes rogue

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/joshbressers" rel= "nofollow">Josh</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kurtseifried" rel="nofollow">Kurt</a> talk about the events happening to the Audacity audio editor. What happens if a popular open source application is acquired by an unknown entity? Can this happen to other open source projects? What can we do about it?</p> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhH-UsSz69M" rel= "nofollow">SGDQ Paper Mario</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9dTmzRAL_4&t=1s" rel="nofollow">Paper Mario Arbitrary Code Execution explained</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.techradar.com/news/major-open-source-projects-abandon-freenode-following-hostile-takeover" rel="nofollow">Freenode</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/audacity-acquired-by-muse-group" rel="nofollow">Audacity acquired by Muse Group</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity">Audacity fork</a></li> </ul>