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  1. 1 hour ago, Gswitz said:

    I'm with you, Haden. It made me a bit nervous too. I try to limit who I have to trust and this is one of the ones I choose to trust.

    It's not obvious that they can be trusted, but it's also not obvious that someone you are paying can be trusted. 🙂 You just have reason to believe they wouldn't want to lose that revenue stream (software you pay for). If the revenue stream could be padded by selling your privacy... well we know some are game to sell it.

    I can't see any real danger. A lot of people I have interacted with for a very long time (Noel for example) says it's trust worthy.

    I'm not exactly sure the economic model is reasonable, but it's also possible a rich individual just likes music and has this as a side line for fun. I really can't say. There are people that rich.

    And if there is something nefarious, what are they getting? Uploading my hard drive one byte at a time? stealing terrible guitar riffs? I think the stuff volunteered by me on social networks or data from my phone is a much much bigger invasion of privacy and we know that gets sold.

    If this stuff is getting sold, I can't imagine to whom.

    Applications can see other applications you run, your OS fingerprint, etc that can be used to personally identify you for targeted advertising (to sell or to use). But as long as Cakewalk's connection is restricted through a firewall like Simplewall or even installed in a VM, I think it's fine.

  2. 1 hour ago, Brian Walton said:

    Millions of dollars of development have gone into creating this applcation that has evolved over decades now.  This isn't some fly by night program.

    How many professional applicaitons of this level have you seen just suddenly give away the source code, which other current competitors could then copy and use without recourse for their own financial gain?

    Cakewalk is a huge value add to the Bandlab brand.     Look at the other open source creative/technical applciations on the market...there isn't a single one I can think of that has the capabilites and refirenment that Cakewalk has.   Other programs typically will have some nice technical qualities with a horrible GUI, or limited feature set, or lack integrations.   Cakewalk (Sonar) had many "firsts" in the industry over its history.  

     

    The fact you even bring Linix into the conversation here, on a program deeply ingrained with Windows, simply suggests you have no idea what you are talking about.  You are aware that Cakewalk was a professional paid for (and every expensive program) for ~20 years, correct?

    Yeah, I know very little about Cakewalk's history. Now I'm starting to understand a little more. I was just curious and suspicious as lots of freeware that are too good to be true ends up being a disaster for the user's privacy.

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    1 hour ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

    We're not hiding anything. BandLab acquired the intellectual rights for Cakewalk properties, and chooses to provide it free to users. It's the same core application that was being sold as SONAR Platinum previously, no nefarious changes, just continued active development. Just because an application is free does not mean it has to be open source. We put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into the application, and that has value, whether the app is being sold or not. 

    I don't see how making it open source decreases it's value; it just makes the company and application more transparent. Anyways thanks for the response.

  4. It's too good to be true that Cakewalk is free. The fact that Cakewalk isn't open source leads me to believe that Bandlab must be hiding something.

    What would be lost if it were open source? Instead of a negative, Bandlab would probably get attention and support, especially from those in the Linux community.

    It is also strange to note that according to their privacy policy, they "will not rent or sell your Information to Third Parties without your consent". The ability to revoke this consent is not in the settings. Instead, you have to email them.

     

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