The unending story of cdrtools

There is still not a single OSS CD writing software for Linux
that is not based on cdrtools. Some programs may claim that they
are not based on cdrtools but they are based on cdrtools - just
carefully check the sources to prove my statement.

If you like to fork OSS software, you need to have the right
skills for this software, you need to be addicted to spend
a lot of time for working on the software and you need to
carefully listen to problems of the users of the software. None
of this is true for the fork "cdrkit". There may be a few "loud"
people in the net that try to make you believe that there are no
problems in "cdrkit". If you carefully listen to the net and look
for real users, you will see that a lot of people are really
disappointed about the current situation.

I do not let my projects become orphaned. I give continuous support
for "star" since 1982 and I give continuous support for "cdrtools"
since January 1996.

The interesting question is: "Why do major Linux distributors
ignore the demands from their userbase?"

It would be interesting to see a related cover story on lwn soon..