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We will of course also remember him for his flames. No kidding. I remember pretty well the cdrecord drama back in the day if only from a distance. Very sad to

by kleiba 5y ago

We will of course also remember him for his flames. No kidding. I remember pretty well the cdrecord drama back in the day if only from a distance. Very sad to hear this news. RIP.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
What was the drama?
- chasil 5y ago
  This seems like a clear analysis. https://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ https://lwn.net/Articles/195167/
  - strenholme 5y ago
    Hopefully, someone (maybe me) will step up to plate and maintain the Debian fork of CDR tools again, for Schilling’s memory if nothing else (and to fix bugs, such as the issue with post-2027 CDR images [1] which I have already fixed). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990468 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990468
  - cxr 5y ago
    Follow up ("The unending story of cdrtools", 2009): <https://lwn.net/Articles/346540/ https://lwn.net/Articles/346540/>
- Saint_Genet 5y ago
  Aside form the licence stuff already linked there were also endless flamewars on how to specify devices when invoking his tools. Schilling was a proponent of SCSI-adressing, and pretty much everyone else wanted to use /dev.