On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > > maybe you do not know who Joerg Schilling is > > he is the one person claiming he is the only one writing a > working cd-burning software on earth and his fights against > GPL and Linux are legend over the years > > http://lwn.net/Articles/199061/ > http://slashdot.org/story/06/09/04/1335226/debian-kicks-jrg-schilling > http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ All I have to say about that is that I wish the GPL were not so restrictive that it prohibits many potential best-of-breed combinations of components. But that was it's intent and it isn't likely to ever change. I'm just glad that people like Larry Wall understood that early-on and used dual-licensing to make at least some software usable in more situations. . -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com