To Evil!: Evil of August 2004 (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

Danny O'Brien seeks out the evildoers in the open source world in what appears to be the first of a series of O'ReillyNet columns. "Now, we know that the furthermost pits of hell are reserved for those who break licensing agreements (unless its clickthrough, where you get put in purgatory until the law can be clarified). But we should also give pause before we place the epaullettes of satan on someone who, let's be fair, learnt the intricacies of the SCSI bus so that we do not. Anyone who has played with SCSI knows that the interface is, frankly, Lovecraftian. A few terminators and DIP switches in, and you're constantly running saving throws for your sanity. Jörg [Schilling's] moment of alleged evil was fleeting, and he removed the restriction in the subsequent increment of cdrecord. Let's say that he was possessed by some old ide-scsi bug, and speaking in tongues at the time."

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Oi Vey!

Posted Sep 15, 2004 18:12 UTC (Wed) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link]

Let's cut Joerg some slack here. He's been a bit grumpy about the whole dvdrecord thing, and he's always been a gadfly about the (alleged) shortcomings in the Linux SCSI subsystem.

However, on the whole his contributions have far outweighed his "sins" and I do which we as a community would find ways to financial reward those who's contributions have become so ubiquitous that we all depend on them daily.

star, mkisofs, cdrecord, to name a few. Where would be be without them. (Yeah, I know, very few people are using star over GNU tar --- GNU tar is a classic case of "good enough" but star is truly better and will be far more important as Linux distributions move to the 2.6 kernel with the addition of ACLs and extended attributes (EAs); our backup/archiving tools must evolve to handle these additional dimensions of meta-data; star has already done so).

JimD