[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brendan Long <korin43 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/2010 11:19 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
>>
>> Joerg on the other hand seems to care a lot about the inclusion of his
>> software in the official Arch repository.
>> Actually, I really wonder like pyther : "What is in this for him?".
>> The software is already in AUR, which every Arch users know and use.
>> According to him, wodim is completely broken, so surely the majority
>> of Arch users either notice it themselves or are told by other people,
>> and will switch to AUR cdrecord.
>>
>
> Perhaps he's annoyed because he wrote a big important piece of software and
> everyone refuses to use it because of BS claims that he's going to sue them.
> Wouldn't it make you angry if you went to the trouble to write something
> like this and everyone ditched it over claims by someone who just wants to
> make their shitty fork popular?

Not to sound trite, but if I was in this situation, I would attempt to
provide as much factual evidence as possible, rather than call people
names, rant a lot, and never provide anything more than hearsay.
Science: it works, bitches