Re: cdrtools cdrecord/cdrecord.c
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:35:25PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>> >
>> There seems to be no open source "official program."
>
>Looks like you missunderstood OpenSource and forks.
>
>Even for Open Source, there is an Author or a group of authors.
>The version that comes from the Copyrightholder is the official one.
>
>And in case you also missunderstood forks: A fork is a _working_ and
>_maintained_ modified version of a program. What you see with the bastardized
>cdrtools versions on Linux is neither working nor maintained, it is just
>a result of the religion of the makers who seem to ingnore the wishes of the
>users because they do not fix the bugs they introduced.
Oh, FFS. Give it a rest, Joerg. Most of the work that the various
Linux distro people have done on cdrtools is to fix real bugs that you
won't acknowledge. Sometimes users simply want things to work on their
systems, rather than random Solaris advocacy...
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