Doesn’t this tie in with the recent YouTube video by the guy who critiqued music composing programs? And Audacity hired him to clean up the UI which added telemetry or something?
Unfortunately, yes, as he works for the parent company. I like the guy but I didn't know about Muse Score's/UG shady history. Sad...
He's a wolf in sheep's clothing at this point.
It's a great illustration of how celebrity is leveraged by the powerful. Muse group picked tantacrul, a celebrated figure for his strong opinions, and told him, "here's how you can do good." And he can do lots of good, but this isn't a tasty way to do it. This is using him instead of as an experienced ui consultant in music software, as a smokescreen for an exploitation of open source culminating in sending user data to Russian law enforcement.
He's still working there, so perhaps he is in support of it?
He was hired as the project lead to improve the UI/UX of Audacity, yes. I don't think the spyware ideas are strictly his, but he is the face of the project whether he wants it or not.