Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>Someone remind me why the whole world is a prisoner to Joerg's cd
>>>burning program?
>>>
>>>Anybody can write their own, and if Joerg is a pain to work with that
>>>is a double extra incentive for this other implementation to be
>>>written.
>>>
>>>In fact I'm very surprised this hasn't happened already.
>>
>>Because Jorg has maintained the program for a decade, has found and supported
>>new vendors and devices, he seems to get new hardware sooner than most, and
>>many programs and scripts use his program as an output stage.
>>
> 
> 
> Because cdrecord (and recently -prodvd) work. And they are "somewhat free".
> There are not much dvd-dl writing programs around that do it without crashing
> freezing or foobaring the disc. You are right, I could go to Nero or Nero4Linux
> ("the best of burning from Windows now for Linux"), but I don't.
> 
> 
>>he thinks his
>>DVD-pro thing will make money but the last time I checked he didn't tke credit
>>cards or paypal
> 
> 
> The last time I checked, prodvd was free for non-commercial purposes and - as
> far as I can *guess* - is free for commercial purposes as long as they give
> notice that it is being used. Unless commercials disguise using the
> non-commercial key.

Free, but not open source, and that's an issue with a mission critical 
application. For home use it doesn't matter, for business use it really 
does. Only one person has the source, and he could be hit by a bus like 
anyone else. Or if he uses as much tact in person as he does in email, 
he might become unavailable at any moment.

I wasn't complaining about the price of ProDVD, just noting that when it 
first came out I tried to buy a license and found that Paypal wasn't an 
option.

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