[wellylug] Cdrtools - why do Linux distributions create bad forks?

Sam Vilain sam at vilain.net
Wed Sep 26 11:27:03 NZST 2007


Daniel Pittman wrote:
> In any case: the short answer is that they created their own fork (which
> isn't actually nearly as bad as Jörg suggests) is that personality
> conflicts with the maintainer resulted in their decision that a fork was
> lest costly than trying to work with the upstream.

Jörg now has an award in his honour, recently awarded to the author of
ion.  http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20070919-00

Sam.




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