hi,
Quite amazing.I don't understand why Xandros is investing in making products which are 
already there as free .
There is no point in making a s/w for cd burning when there are good softwares like 
xcdroast... which will improve with time.
and trying to sell it...
It is a bad investment....

Pankaj

-----Original Message-----
From: Srinivasan Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:47:58 -0400
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Red-Hat 9 disks

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 10:06, Anurag Patel wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:06:43 +0530, "Rony Bill" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> 
> [snip]
> > The free version has speed limited to 4X. The paid 
> version has normal
> > speed.
> > Its information is available on the 
> http://www.xandros.com/ site.
> > 
> 
> But the point is, If its features are limited then how and 
> in what sense is it Free ??? And why are its features 
> limited... Why only 4X ??? and why not 52X  or something
> else ???
>

I took a quick look at the Xandros site, and found that Xandros Disk
Burner, which is apparently what the orginal poster referred to, is a
feature of the Xandros File Manager, which is a proprietary addon.
However, Linux has always had free (as in freedom) CD burners since
cdrecord and its GUI front ends xcdroast and the Gnome and KDE
analogues.  And now Nautilus too has CD burning capabilities built in,
so I fail to see the need for any proprietary closed source software
costing $$$ for this task.  I've used xcdroast for years now for all
manners of things including mission critical backups, and have not had a
problem yet.

Regards,

Krishnan



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