Re: CD/DVD record

[Henning P. Schmiedehausen]

Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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