Jörg Schilling
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Jörg Schilling is a computer programmer known especially for his work on compact disk burning software and as an advocate of Solaris and OpenSolaris. Born in Berlin in 1956, he trained originally as an electrical engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. He is currently employed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin where his main project is the Berlios open source web site[1] Schilling's work over many years on CD burning software culminated in the cdrtools package, which includes cdrecord and the ancillary programs mkisofs and cdda2wav. This package supports most CD recorders and runs on most operating systems. It is the backend for the great majority of CD burning GUI and other frontend programs in the free software world, including popular GUI frontends such as X-CD-Roast, K3b, and the CD-burning plugin of Nautilus.
Schilling was involved in a high profile incident at the beginning of September 2006 when the Debian project responded to his license changes by forking CDRecord, creating a new branch outside of his control which has been named cdrkit.[2]
He is also known for his frequent criticism of aspects of the Linux kernel.[3]
