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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 hear this news. RIP.



What was the drama?


This seems like a clear analysis.

https://lwn.net/Articles/195167/


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


Follow up ("The unending story of cdrtools", 2009): <https://lwn.net/Articles/346540/>


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.




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