ImageDisk project is canceled

Christer O. Andersson wrote: Ahhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggg. Christer, you are talking in hypotheticals. You have open source religion. Dave was going to release the source, just not yet. Yes, perhaps he is too sensitive about it, but it is his code. So far it seems like there are three groups of people: (1) those who don't care one way or another (2) those who were using his programs and were happy with the situation (3) open source bigots who insist that the world should adhere to their vision of things. for you and others, it is a polemic exercise. so group #3, who aren't using the software, are now happy because they have somehow purified the world in some abstract and hypthetical way. group #2, including me, are now harmed materially. some in group #1 have also lost something, although they won't realize that a year from now when they ask the list for a boot disk to machine xyz and it isn't available. open source existed before any of this came up. yet it didn't somehow magically cause a solution to spring into existance. it was the efforts of an individual who made it happen. now Dave has "died the death of 1000 cuts" and shut down. Yes, an open source solution would be great. BUT ONE DOESN'T EXIST. The one that was real and was on track to becoming open source died in the crib. Any benefit of OS is just a mental exercise until then. As for losing a disk -- you obviously are a sideline kibitzer. Dave did document his format. It is trivial (a header with some fixed fields and one variable field for holding a disk label, then a straight linear sector dump). He even included some tools for converting to/from a raw sector dump. Have you used his tools? Looked at what he was offering? Why do you feel fit to comment on it if you haven't? Personally I'm disgusted by the purists who think they've achieved something here. You had nothing to lose. I did, and I've lost it. Thanks for your help.