What is ratDVD?
Hi all,
A question on a french forum lighted something in my mind. What do we know about ratDVD ? The website is opened since only a month. But let's be honnest : such a tool can't have been designed in less than 6 monthes, probably more. Moreover when the author always talk as 'I', never 'we'. Second : the closed sources. I can hardly imagine to developp such app as freeware and not sharing the source, even to receive some help to enhance ? What is really in the source ? Who can tell the .ratDVD is not tagged somehow to identify the original releaser of a file ? Third : read carefully the website. Nothing is said about the author. Who he is, how can he be contacted (I know he goes on some forum but that's few). Finally : a 1-month old website registered to a Danish citizen, a tool that is almost bug-free and... so much merchandising ? (mug, teeshirts, mousepad...). I wonder : what the hell is that ? Just a nighty thought... |
Hi Phil, those are all excellent points you have made here and to be honest I haven't thougt about it until you brought this to light.
To be honest I haven't installed RatDVD as of yet and now that you have mentioned these concerns I don't think I will, like you said website over a month and a relatively new tool and bug free is pretty rare, most tools have glitches in them when released hence constant updates. Unless it has been developed for months by a team who tested it rigorously tested it and he wants to keep the rest of his team quiet. Mind you not having a contact e-mail addy not even a hotmail one is a bit suss. It certainly does make you wonder if these files are tagged. I wonder if we will ever know the truth. :? |
I found this in D9: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=97893
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It's really a shame the way the GPL works, but what else can you expect from Stallman :roll: I found a quote on a site, which made me laugh, but it's very true :!: It was related to something like "If I was a manufacturer of GPL tires, and people buy tires from me, then I would be entitled to all manufacturing plans of all the cars who use my tires" :lol: Seriously :!:, that's the GPL "way" applied to software :twisted: I'm just glad my opinion about GPL is equally shared by serious people in the industry. ( Guido Van Rossum, Eric Raymond, etc, etc, etc. ) -kwag |
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It is such a restrictive license and good programs like Muaddib excellent MovieStacker now lies in a graveyard probably never to be seen again. :( :cry: I also read that post over at D9 and imho the GPL should be avoided if possible when coding even though sometimes that is hard especially if your code calls externally programs that are under the GPL. |
I found this: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...805#post691805
But it is surprisingly curious to see that D9 himself usually fails to find any GPL violations :wink: That is, appart from Muaddib's violation, on the FitCD vs Moviestacker issue. That one he could see from many miles of distance... :? I wonder why. |
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Doom9 is GPL land :lol: -kwag |
@Prodater64,
Related to the Matroska guys asking (enforcing/feeding on GPL :lol: ) for sources on that link you posted, the ratdvd team did release them. They are here: http://www.ratdvd.dk/downloads/libdvdnav.zip -kwag |
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