From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267223AbUHYMpo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267226AbUHYMpo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:45:44 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.184.41]:10145 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267223AbUHYMpm (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:45:42 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: CD/DVD record Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <4125B539.6040402@hist.no> <20040825135149.2166f4a4.skraw@ithnet.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1093437940 19984 212.34.184.4 (25 Aug 2004 12:45:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:45:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan von Krawczynski writes: >Actually this is only FUD spread by Joerg. He is definitely not the only man on >this planet knowing how to program CD/DVD burning equipment. >Generally cdrecord has one big deficiency, which obviously was intended: >it does not allow medium skilled programmers from drive _vendors_ to add >support for their latest hardware easily. Everyone has to beg Joerg, which >obviously increased his ego dramatically over the years. >It would be a lot better to start off a new project where vendors (or anybody >with skill and will) can contribute more easily, i.e. something that is truely >_open_. ... and you can start standing on the shoulders of cdrecord, looking at all the "strange stuff" and "vendor information" that Mr. Schilling has used. After all, this is what the GPL and open source is all about. Rip out, what is useful, discard the rest, ignore the complaints. That's how it works. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ RedHat Certified Engineer -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire Linux, Java, perl, Solaris -- Consulting, Training, Development "Fighting for one's political stand is an honorable action, but re- fusing to acknowledge that there might be weaknesses in one's position - in order to identify them so that they can be remedied - is a large enough problem with the Open Source movement that it deserves to be on this list of the top five problems." -- Michelle Levesque, "Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development"