I'm very confused about that. I have read things like this:
"The whole CDRwin story since the birth of this "famous" program is very funny indeed!
Mr. Jeff Arnold, a regular Unix/linux forums community developer/visitor decided at some time to make some $$$ out of Windows users and introduced its beauty, CDRwin. The program was a smash hit because the burning engine was extremely stable, in contrast with the "opposition" of that time (EZCD Annihilator). No wonder how mr. Arnold managed it so well, in fact he just STOLE the whole sourcecode Joerg Schilling wrote for cdrecord. The whole mikisofs/cdrecord/cdrtools project is open source of course, but it is NOT meant to be modified and used in a COMMERCIAL program under any circumstances!
Mr. Arnold actually NEVER managed to put real RAW capabilities in his program, RAW images could be burned by just a bunch of recorders, while most would fail- and his so called RAW mode within CDRWin is a FAKE! So when things went tough and he had to introduce REAL RAW abilities in his proggy (you know how the open market rules are alike... meet the competition, and make profits- or die!), he adopted the Padus device interface and a good part of its burning engine... His company was in close ties with Padus, and now I guess the best part of his income goes there too."
And others like this:
"CDRWin 3, 4 and 5 - same brand, different developers
Posted by DoMiN8ToR on Monday 22 April - 20:35 - Source: CD Freaks
A lot of you probably already noticed that there are currently several versions of CDRwin available on the internet. CDRWin has always been developed by Goldenhawk, but the 5.x versions seem to be developed in Germany.
We asked Goldenhawk if they have sold the brand and stopped development. Below the answer:
Reply from Goldenhawk:
CDRWIN 5.0 is NOT from Goldenhawk Technology. We are currently investigating this situation, and will have some resolution to it soon. We strongly recommend that you do NOT use version 5.0 as there are many reports of it crashing people's systems. We have not stopped development, nor have we sold the rights to our software.
We will not make an official statement at this time for legal reasons."
So... what is true?¿?
"The whole CDRwin story since the birth of this "famous" program is very funny indeed!
Mr. Jeff Arnold, a regular Unix/linux forums community developer/visitor decided at some time to make some $$$ out of Windows users and introduced its beauty, CDRwin. The program was a smash hit because the burning engine was extremely stable, in contrast with the "opposition" of that time (EZCD Annihilator). No wonder how mr. Arnold managed it so well, in fact he just STOLE the whole sourcecode Joerg Schilling wrote for cdrecord. The whole mikisofs/cdrecord/cdrtools project is open source of course, but it is NOT meant to be modified and used in a COMMERCIAL program under any circumstances!
Mr. Arnold actually NEVER managed to put real RAW capabilities in his program, RAW images could be burned by just a bunch of recorders, while most would fail- and his so called RAW mode within CDRWin is a FAKE! So when things went tough and he had to introduce REAL RAW abilities in his proggy (you know how the open market rules are alike... meet the competition, and make profits- or die!), he adopted the Padus device interface and a good part of its burning engine... His company was in close ties with Padus, and now I guess the best part of his income goes there too."
And others like this:
"CDRWin 3, 4 and 5 - same brand, different developers
Posted by DoMiN8ToR on Monday 22 April - 20:35 - Source: CD Freaks
A lot of you probably already noticed that there are currently several versions of CDRwin available on the internet. CDRWin has always been developed by Goldenhawk, but the 5.x versions seem to be developed in Germany.
We asked Goldenhawk if they have sold the brand and stopped development. Below the answer:
Reply from Goldenhawk:
CDRWIN 5.0 is NOT from Goldenhawk Technology. We are currently investigating this situation, and will have some resolution to it soon. We strongly recommend that you do NOT use version 5.0 as there are many reports of it crashing people's systems. We have not stopped development, nor have we sold the rights to our software.
We will not make an official statement at this time for legal reasons."
So... what is true?¿?
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