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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CD/DVD record
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:45:40 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cgi1lk$jgg$1@tangens.hometree.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040825135149.2166f4a4.skraw@ithnet.com

Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> 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
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 fusing to acknowledge that there might be weaknesses in one's
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19 13:25 CD/DVD record Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-19 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-19 14:41   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-19 15:04     ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-19 13:37 ` Nigel Rantor
2004-08-19 14:46   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-19 14:59     ` Nigel Rantor
2004-08-20  8:24   ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-20  8:46     ` Nigel Rantor
2004-08-23 22:07       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-25 11:51         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2004-08-25 12:45           ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
2004-08-25 21:54           ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-26  9:41             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2004-08-26 20:21               ` Bill Davidsen

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