Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-08 10:20:42, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: >>>> Well, the reason appears to be that cdrecord is not available in >>>> Fedora unless you install it yourself, Fedora has chosen to take >>>> he respected cdrecord name and put wodim in its place. This seems >>>> to me as ethical as selling replica Rolex watches, the user get >>>> something other than what they expect. >>>> >>> In which case please remmeber to do the following >>> >>> mv ssh openssh >>> mv sshd opensshd >>> mv cp gnucp >>> mv ls gnuls >>> >>> etc.. >>> >> Do you feel that any of these accept the commands of the original and >> are incapable of correctly producing the desired result? >> >> Neither do I. >> >> But wodim can not claim that behavior, and so should be called by its >> own name (and only that name, although I've used a few other names, >> too, after wasting media). > > Cdrecord cannot legally be distributed by anyone, due to license > problems. Contact the author and complain. Be aware that he is > a difficult person who thinks he is as good a lawyer as he is a > sysadmin. > I seem to have failed to make the point, I'm not asking anyone to distribute cdrecord, just to stop distributing a partially broken program of the same name. Or linking that program to cdrecord, or in any way providing a non-functional program which fails on Blu-ray, and is unreliable at best on SVCD and DVD-DL. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
