Interview with Alexander Noe, PxScan Developer

wikinerd writes "I interviewed Alexander Noe, developer of the open source PxScan and PxView utilities. He recently received a cease-and-desist letter by Shinano Kenshi, the Japanese company which controls Plextor. His utilities provide similar functionality with PlexTools, sending special command sequences to Plextor DVD recorders that activate special features such as media quality check."

Comments

AHAHAHA

[Anonymous Coward]

Open Source pwn3d yet again :-D

And they are Japanese, not American

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

I had also been under the impression Plextor was American, not Japanese.

2 more reasons not to buy (1: they aren't American - we have enough unemployment here - the Bay Area is in a Depression so bad they've even had to cut hours on public transit, people are leaving, etc - I really don't want more Americans out of work and 2: they are Japanese - never forget their brutal treatment of American POWs in WWII, their brutalization of the Chinese and Koreans, their collaboration with the Nazis and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor - the worst attack on US soil until September 11, 2001 - I'd rather buy Taiwanese, e.g. Asus instead - plus they seem to be more open source friendly [Asus and the Taiwanese in general - most all Taiwanese chipsets for motherboards, lm_sensors, etc are well documented by public data sheets]).

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[Anonymous Coward]

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