3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
11:44 a.m.
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Understood completely.
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 07:30 -0400, Steven Hirsch
wrote:
Good to hear. I'm embarrassed to admit that in 16+ years of internet
usage, I've yet to participate in IRC (he ducks..).
I'll continue using the Catweasel and my
various other boxes to make
images and hope that Philip gets the support software for DiscFerret
fleshed out in the near future.
The software is being worked on by myself and two other developers. We
have an IRC channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net), predictably enough
called #discferret. And I'm always on the lookout for more developers
:)
No promises, but I would like to eavesdrop and see what's going on.
Philip?
You've been very quiet lately. How's progress?
I've been quiet for several reasons:
1) I tend to stay out of OT discussions, and there have been a lot of
those on-list recently. 2) Every time I've commented on a thread like
this, I've been dragged
into some type of flame battle. Some people really don't like the idea
of alternatives being mentioned -- to the extent that I mentioned the
DiscFerret on one classiccmp web-forum, and ended up having ALL my posts
removed (several dozen messages), and my account blocked. Complete with
a message from the admin to the effect of "your opensource project harms
commercial interests, and we have few enough commercial suppliers left
as it is". I've stopped trying...
That's absolutely... incredible. Words fail me.
As I've said elsethread, I see the three devices
as serving different
parts of the same market:
- Kryoflux -- hobbyists who "just want a disc image". Turn-key, no
fiddly switches or buttons to press.
- DiscFerret and (to some degree) Catweasel -- Tinkerers. People who
want to look under the hood, see how things are done. The sort of folks
who buy a car, then immediately go out and buy the Workshop Manual,
Haynes manual and all the special tools required.
A good summary.
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