Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools

Posted Sep 4, 2006 20:03 UTC (Mon) by erich (subscriber, #7127)
In reply to: cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools by richo123
Parent article: cdrkit: Debian's fork of cdrtools

Why would you change the software? Change the user!

Instead of forking cdrecord, we could just fork the users!

(Log in to post comments)

Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:25 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Users have a natural tendency to fork. Unfortunately, there seems to be some trouble getting the necessary pair of developers with the right attributes together to create and support the fork, and it take a lot of time and a lot of money to get a successful fork that doesn't depend on the initial pair of developers.