On Friday 04 August 2006 02:40 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote: > The current problem with Debian is that they disregard their ethics rules > and act with arbitrariness. Some people dislike anything but the GPL and > apply pressure on authors that use different licenses.
There could be something lost in the translation between you and them possibly, I don't know what the problem is. I've always found them to be fairly reasonable. I'm not sure what the problem with CDDL is. Debian does favor the GPL, I will admit, and I sometimes have a problem with it. I also feel at the same time that even though I don't believe in the GPL 100%, I feel there is reason to align with the rest of the open source community at large, which GPL unfortunately does. I prefer the BSD 3 clause, and that's the license I have released software with for myself. I wish all licensing was so simple. > I would he glad to see that it's not me who is the only person who is > fighting for unbiased views on Licenses. Discussions with Debian take a > looong time and are currently not fruitful at all. Again, I don't know of your discussions, but there might be something lost in the translation between all involved, that I don't know. > I did just see some reports that have been created as cdrw does not write > with the AOpen drive in the Ultra-20. cdrw does not work and gives no > reason for this failure. Cdrecord does print an "imcompatible medium" error > message. BTW: this was Ritek DVD media wich is od very poor quality. It is > known that many drives will not work with them at all. But what does this mean? Chances are that new firmware is needed on the AOpen driver, won't be the first time I've seen that happen. In fact, there were some Sun servers which had AOpen drives and they needed a firmware update as well. I don't think it's anything to fret over. > Please do not use this Debian junk! I'm really sorry you feel that way. You're one of the very brilliant programmers that our community is so fortunate to have as a part of them. Yet you make it difficult at times to reason with. A lot is owed to you as you were one of the first people to get OpenSolaris to even boot by itself, AFAIK. Nexenta has over 12,000 packages...it wasn't long ago when open source distributions didn't have a fraction of that number of packages, yet we have that on OpenSolaris in less than a year. > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > > it is 2.01.1a11. Be sure to also overwrite mkisofs, readcd and cdda2wav. I'll grab them, thanks for the pointer. > BTW: The same is true for star and Debian. Leave star out of this conversation!<wink> -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
