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cdrtools - a tale of an incompatible authorcdrtools - a tale of an incompatible authorPosted Aug 14, 2006 8:35 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: cdrtools - a tale of an incompatible author by louie Parent article: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses
Actually, jwz and David can at least listen to reason in most areas (jwz in pretty much all, as far as I can tell: he just has strong opinions and a quirky sense of humour).
Joerg lives in his own universe and is impervious to rational argument on every subject I've ever seen him discuss (if one can use that word with respect to Joerg: to me, 'discussion' implies at least the possibility of movement on both sides). He's right and everyone else is wrong, on every subject, no matter what, and that's it. The facts are not important and every possible debating trick is usable, no matter how unethical, in service of that.
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cdrtools - a tale of an incompatible author Posted Aug 14, 2006 12:03 UTC (Mon) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link] Joerg is one of those people where dpm's comment applies in full force. Thankfully, people with quite this level of obliviousness are comparatively rare... You go right on thinking that. Don't let reality stop you. -- dpm
cdrtools - a tale of an incompatible author Posted Aug 15, 2006 4:18 UTC (Tue) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link] And, however off-the-wall or b0rken, whatever some UNIX does (other than Linux) is more important. Joerg has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to try to serve every UNIX alive simultaneously, and so when Linux does something perfectly sensible, but not bound by the logic of every other UNIX in existence, Joerg tells us we're wrong, and uses his code as a bludgeon.
cdrtools - a tale of an incompatible author Posted Aug 15, 2006 9:07 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] For values of 'every other UNIX in existence' equal to 'Solaris and only Solaris', you're right. He tries to serve every other Unix in existence by a) writing an indirection layer to make them look like Solaris (which is fine), b) insisting that users use device-choice semantics appropriate only to old versions of Solaris (which is silly), and c) badgering everyone else to try to force them to be more like Solaris (which is annoying).
It's not as if cdrecord looks remotely like any other Solaris application in existence in command-line argument layout or in user interface. The whole thing is a triumph of NIH, from the, ahem, `unique' makefile system with its manifold annoyances through to the `unique' command line with *its* manifold annoyances (which make it amazingly hard to parse the output of from scripts: *another* way in which dvdrecord beats it).
cdrtools - a tale of an incompatible author Posted Aug 18, 2006 13:32 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] His tar utility is lovely, my secret wish is that it ends up replacing GNU tar in a distant future, at least the features and file format compatibility.
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