ImageDisk project is canceled

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:27:21 -0800 (PST)
"Dwight Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:

> >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
> 
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.

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