20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
1:27 p.m.
From: "Christer O. Andersson" <christer at
a-son.net>
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:10:36AM -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
---snip---
And that is a problem. If you rely on his tools, and
find it
malfunctions in some way, you cannot fix the problem without the
source. If Dave is not supporting his tool anymore for some reason,
your stuck. Your saved disk might be lost. If the source is available
you can either fix it yourself or arrange with somebody to fix it
for you.
Hi
That is just plan silly. He has stated that he is openly
providing all the information about the format. If you have
the image and the information about the format, all that is lost
is the means of transfer. There are many on this group that
could, if needed, provide that for you ( or you could learn
enough to do it for yourself ). As Dave has stated, the
actual transfer program itself is nothing revolutionary. What is
a lot of work is providing all the options and variations
that are out there.
Even with the source code, if you didn't understand how
to talk to disk and DMA controllers, it is
doubtful that you could fix a bug in the program. Of course,
if you did understood these things, you could, knowing the
image format, write your own transfer program.
Lets get real. He has provided a useful format for image
storage. The methods of transferring the information
could be varied.
Dwight
20 Dec
20 Dec
2:11 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:27:21PM -0800, Dwight Elvey wrote:
Hi!
Yes, unless the bug violates the documented format. Or the
documentation is wrong. In either case you would benefit from having
access to the source code.
From:
"Christer O. Andersson" <christer at a-son.net>
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:10:36AM -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
---snip---
And that is a problem. If you rely on his tools,
and find it
malfunctions in some way, you cannot fix the problem without the
source. If Dave is not supporting his tool anymore for some reason,
your stuck. Your saved disk might be lost. If the source is available
you can either fix it yourself or arrange with somebody to fix it
for you.
Hi
That is just plan silly. He has stated that he is openly
providing all the information about the format. If you have
the image and the information about the format, all that is lost
is the means of transfer. There are many on this group that could, if needed, provide that for you ( or you could
learn
enough to do it for yourself ). As Dave has stated, the
actual transfer program itself is nothing revolutionary. What is
a lot of work is providing all the options and variations
that are out there.
Bug prone?
Even with the source code, if you didn't
understand how
to talk to disk and DMA controllers, it is
doubtful that you could fix a bug in the program. Of course,
if you did understood these things, you could, knowing the
image format, write your own transfer program.
DMA controllers are generally documented and souce code is often
available. With the source code to ImageDisk it would definately
be easier to fix something then rewriting it all from scratch.
Lets get real. He has provided a useful format for
image
storage. The methods of transferring the information
could be varied.
Dwight
Fine. It would be even better with the source code available. I
probably just don't understand the problem with releasing the source
code under whatever license Dave prefer.
--
Christer O. Andersson
Odensbacken
4:43 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:27:21 -0800 (PST)
"Dwight Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:
The grandparent was, unfortunately, just trotting out some of the
standard 'open source' boilerplate. Some here are treating this
like Dave was trying to produce another Microsoft Word. And their
ignorance is disappointing.
From:
"Christer O. Andersson" <christer at a-son.net>
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:10:36AM -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
---snip---
And that is a problem. If you rely on his tools,
and find it
malfunctions in some way, you cannot fix the problem without
the source. If Dave is not supporting his tool anymore for some
reason, your stuck. Your saved disk might be lost. If the
source is available you can either fix it yourself or arrange
with somebody to fix it for you.
Hi
That is just plan silly. He has stated that he is openly
providing all the information about the format. If you have
the image and the information about the format, all that is lost
is the means of transfer. There are many on this group that
could, if needed, provide that for you ( or you could learn
enough to do it for yourself ). As Dave has stated, the
actual transfer program itself is nothing revolutionary. What is
a lot of work is providing all the options and variations
that are out there.
Even with the source code, if you didn't understand how
to talk to disk and DMA controllers, it is
doubtful that you could fix a bug in the program. Of course,
if you did understood these things, you could, knowing the
image format, write your own transfer program.
Lets get real. He has provided a useful format for image
storage. The methods of transferring the information
could be varied.
Dwight
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