Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751169AbWBBSg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:36:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751171AbWBBSg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:36:26 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:1677 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbWBBSg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:36:26 -0500 Message-ID: <43E25171.7040203@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:37:37 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, bzolnier@gmail.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acahalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 References: <200601302043.56615.diablod3@gmail.com> <20060130.174705.15703464.davem@davemloft.net> <20060131.031817.85883571.davem@davemloft.net> <43E00091.5030503@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2133 Lines: 51 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. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/