[vishnu]

That's terrible, I had no idea he was sick! The poor guy had to undergo years of FUD for cdrecord. Fortunately since I've always used Slackware, and Pat Volkerding, genius that he  is easily saw through the FUD and never shipped with any of the dreck people were trying to depose cdrecord with. This is really sad, I hope he had a succession plan in place for cdrecord. Some of you may remember when Pat Volkerding had a pretty bad health scare a few years ago, he's had a succession plan in place ever since.