hi, Quite amazing.I don't understand why Xandros is investing in making products which are already there as free . There is no point in making a s/w for cd burning when there are good softwares like xcdroast... which will improve with time. and trying to sell it... It is a bad investment....
Pankaj
-----Original Message----- From: Srinivasan Krishnan skrishnan@primus.ca To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:47:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Red-Hat 9 disks
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 10:06, Anurag Patel wrote:
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:06:43 +0530, "Rony Bill" ronbilly@hotpop.com said:
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The free version has speed limited to 4X. The paid
version has normal
speed. Its information is available on the
http://www.xandros.com/ site.
But the point is, If its features are limited then how and in what sense is it Free ??? And why are its features limited... Why only 4X ??? and why not 52X or something else ???
I took a quick look at the Xandros site, and found that Xandros Disk Burner, which is apparently what the orginal poster referred to, is a feature of the Xandros File Manager, which is a proprietary addon. However, Linux has always had free (as in freedom) CD burners since cdrecord and its GUI front ends xcdroast and the Gnome and KDE analogues. And now Nautilus too has CD burning capabilities built in, so I fail to see the need for any proprietary closed source software costing $$$ for this task. I've used xcdroast for years now for all manners of things including mission critical backups, and have not had a problem yet.
Regards,
Krishnan
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Pankaj