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Authored by: robg on May 15, '02 01:00:32PM

If something can be done at the command line, I think it's perfectly fine to have a version that works in the GUI, even if it costs money. There will always be a percentage of OS X users (maybe even a majority percentage) who would prefer to stay away from the command line, and it's good that they have options available.

Personally, I'll probably choose to register this product, just because I find the concept of drag and drop much easier than starting a terminal and issuing a few commands whenever I want to burn something. If a freeware AppleScript comes along that does the same thing, I'd probably use that instead.

In general, if there's a way to gain GUI access to UNIX command-line functionality, that can only be a good thing for the Mac platform in general -- it's a good way to keep both the GUI and command line users happy!

-rob.



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I respectfully disagree
Authored by: gvitale on May 16, '02 04:37:40AM

Of course you are wright robg; what I mean is that for those of us that are not allergic to the command line, its a considerable save of money, energy and computer resources to use the built-in resources of Darwin. Maybe most people have big wallets, huge hard drives and unlimited memory, is that so? ;-)



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