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| − | On the whole I think there may be a case for moving most of those
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| − | links to Wiki and doing away with that Links page.
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| − | There are no reciprocal link agreements that I am aware of for that
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| − | Links page, so the case is different to the distributors page where
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| − | there were "agreements", in some sense.
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| − | The rationale for the Links page was as James stated, I believe,
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| − | but I think we could constrain the links by perceived usefulness.
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| − | As one example, I think it good that some users might see the link for
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| − | Avidemux and so remux their Audacity-edited audio without damaging
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| − | the video, rather than lossily re-encoding their video in Movie Maker or
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| − | whatever. OTOH I see little purpose linking (solely) to Ardour as an
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| − | example of a DAW/audio editor. They have set their stall against
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| − | supporting Windows, and only a vanishingly small proportion of our users
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| − | could manage their learning curve, I suspect.
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| − | If the links are likely to be more findable on Wiki, on "Beyond Audacity"
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| − | pages about specific tasks or about other apps, then I think it's OK to move
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| − | them there. But is that supposition of more findable on Wiki likely to be
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| − | true? We may have to put some work into making it so.
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| − | Note that on WIki (and in the Manual) we do recommend commercial or
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| − | closed source applications (which I think is OK if they are known excellent
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| − | and if we recommend more than one). Where links are not constrained to
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| − | open source only, we could mention other useful apps like Foobar 2000.
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| − | It is of course our decision not to put current Audacity up on SourceForge.
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| − | SF is still a useful open source repository, but I don't think we want the
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| − | maintenance of constantly checking up on whether they have gone back to
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| − | aggressive or deceptive advertising, so better to remove those SF links.
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