Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Joerg Schilling
2004-08-10T14:28:10Z

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>From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
>> Indeed! Altough minor things could be better with Debian too, Debian is the
>> only true Open Source Linux distribution. Other distributions modify programs
>> without reason and do not cooperate with the original authors :-(

>Would you mind to stop your general accusations against "other distributions"
>and your talking for people (i.e. authors) that you don't know or haven't
>talked to in your whole lifetime.

>Fortunately everybody can decide for himself what distro he likes best. And if
>someone thinks he has to modify the original GPL source, then he should do.
>If you don't like that, don't use GPL, because the right to modify foreign
>sources is a major part of it.

You seem to forget that the main problems are:

- These distributions do not talk with the original Authors which
demonstrates that they do not like to benefit from OSS.

- The modified versions of cdrtools found in distributions are _all_
worse than the original. As some of the distributions (e.g. SuSE)
even published versions known to be defective, they violate
the GPL (subsection 6 of the preamble).

Jörg

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