Jörg Schilling is gone

cdrecord was the gateway drug to allow me to introduce FLOSS to a workplace. A Sun workstation had a hugely expensive CD burner attached. The software was also hugely expensive, didn't work and kept two professional sysadmins working for two days to puzzle it out. cdrecord "just worked"

That having been said: I watched the toll of the arguments over cdrtools vs. wodim, GPL and CDDL and the licensing mess which took its toll on a very valued colleague: great coder, valuable code but the concomitant fallout was very, very damaging. We are all complicated people: Joerg was more complex and less open to persuasion than almost anyone else.