On Mon, 21 May 2001, Frederick Page wrote:
>>My 1993 2x drive and my 1994 4x drive are
>>still running in great shape as good as they did brand new. (...)
>>The point to Jeorg being that there is no reason for me (or you
>>Alan) to upgrade a perfectly good working drive that we are happy
>>with and which works fine today.
>
>1. There might be users, who want DAE (digital audio extraction),
>especially those, who burn audio-CDs. You need a pretty new CD-Rom
>in order to be DAE capable.
No you do not. My drive is ancient and does DAE just fine.
>2. You can't buy a 4x drive today in any shop.
True, but so what? People have, and use these drives myself
included.
>3. A 4x drive can hardly be considered a standard piece of hardware
Please define "standard piece of hardware" so that I am looking
at the same "standard" as you are.
>Joerg does not develop for Linux, Linux is one of his 30 supported
>platforms for cdrecord. If he decides to drop Linux support, there
>would be absolutely no alternative in cdrecording. I'm under the
>impression, that neither Alan, nor anyone else understands what Joerg
>is saying and/or does not care (because his old 4x drive runs).
Well, after talking privately with Joerg, I _do_ know what he is
talking about. We are now on the same level and understand each
other perfectly.
Looks like there was some misunderstanding of what each other
meant, and once it clicked, we realize that we both agree with
each other more than disagree, we just did not have the same way
of communicatng the ideas, and it appeared that we were thinking
opposite things, but were not actually.
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