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Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Feb 8 17:43:03 UTC 2010


On 10-02-08 10:20:42, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Well, the reason appears to be that cdrecord is not available in
> >> Fedora unless you install it yourself, Fedora has chosen to take 
> >> he respected cdrecord name and put wodim in its place. This seems 
> >> to me as ethical as selling replica Rolex watches, the user get 
> >> something other than what they expect.
> >>     
> >
> > In which case please remmeber to do the following
> >
> > mv ssh openssh
> > mv sshd opensshd
> > mv cp gnucp
> > mv ls gnuls 
> >
> > etc..
> >   
> 
> Do you feel that any of these accept the commands of the original and 
> are incapable of correctly producing the desired result?
> 
> Neither do I.
> 
> But wodim can not claim that behavior, and so should be called by its 
> own name (and only that name, although I've used a few other names,
> too, after wasting media).

Cdrecord cannot legally be distributed by anyone, due to license 
problems.  Contact the author and complain.  Be aware that he is
a difficult person who thinks he is as good a lawyer as he is a 
sysadmin.

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