General

According to Heise, cdrecord is currently in big trouble, with flamewars going on on LKML. This is of course a bad thing, since Linux users need some program to burn CDs on their Linux machines. My proposal (short and clear): if Joerg Schilling is unwilling to cooperate with the Linux developers, other developers should fork development and publish their own version of it, under a new name. SuSE already heavily patches cdrecord so that it can write to DVDs, so their patch would be a good start. Joerg Schilling does provide an own version of cdrecord with DVD support, but he doesn't publish it in source form, with a proprietary license, and a license key file that needs to be renewed every 6 months or so. But instead of helping create good software, he keeps on trolling on the usual mailing lists, insulting Linux distributors and insisting on his (often obscure and crude) opinions.