Unlike the original pull request, Keary's update has been positively received by the community. Taking Google and Yandex out of the equation was an easy decision." Insisting that Audacity "will always be free and open source," Keary went on: "The fact that we were planning on hosting the telemetry data on Google and Yandex was (I think) what convinced some people that we had underhanded intentions.
Options including making it a fully optional add-on that users could elect to install have been mooted, although he told us: "We'll have to make do without telemetry for the time being."
Keary remains keen on telemetry to inform where time and effort need to be invested. The pull request might have turned up before the announcement of Audacity joining Muse, which would have further ramped up the worry. Such are the benefits of open-source development. "It was a completely innocent mistake that ended up doing the announcing for us. "What wrong-footed us completely was that the news got out before we were ready to make an announcement about it." Keary told The Register that Muse Group had not completely been taken aback by the reaction – telemetry is a very contentious issue after all.
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