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If you go to Maui X-stream's page about the Golden Globes, it says that it was selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. How did such a company reknown for its "illicit commerical activity" manage to get exclusive access to providing video bandwidth for the Golden Globes?! Even more alarming, who decided that... "VX30(TM) is ranked by www.playerless-streaming.org as the best playerless streaming solution on the market today. The software employs a patent-pending technology which allows for higher compression of video files. The dramatic reduction in file size results in significant cost savings on bandwidth usage. VX30(TM) instantly broadcasts TV-quality images over the Internet at 30 frames per second." Either they're flat-out lying, or they have some good connections, because nobody has seemed to realize the connection between their software and GPL licensed stuff. Although, to be honest, I was pretty impressed with Maui's website and performance, even with the unplausible sources of the software.

I'm a technical editor for EDN Magazine, and am scheduled to be in Maui on vacation in early May. While I'm there, I've scheduled (several weeks ago) an onsite interview with Maui X-Stream, the promoters of CherryOS. Yesterday morning I got an email from company president Jim Kartes clarifying Slashdot's earlier heads-up that the software had been pulled, and yesterday's CherryOS website revision; "Due to Overwhelming Demand, Cherry Open Source Project Launches 5.1.2005".

Here's what Jim says: "Brian. Here's the deal. We have decided to change CherryOS to an "open source code" product. We will do so May 1st because we need a few weeks to prepare for this. We will be charging only $14.95 for this to cover our cost of development, plus ongoing development as well as marketing costs. We are doing this because we want all to see that we have not lifted source code from other sources."

I suspect that the PearPC development team, and many of the rest of you, have lots of questions for the folks at Maui X-Stream. Please visit my blog posting at EDN's website and suggest general topics for discussion during my interview, along with specific questions that you want me to ask Jim and other company representatives I meet with. I'll report back to Slashdot after the meeting, both here and on my blog.

The company site has removed CherryOS from their product listings.

http://www.mxsinc.com/

If MXSinc gets Slashdotted - they will go broke due to bandwidth overages.

In addition, on this page, they don't acknowledge Motorola's trademark on "AltiVec". It sounds like these guys really have their IP knowledge down.

On the Trial Download page, there are 5 checkboxes you "have" to agree to. If you don't check them, and click Download, it still lets you download with agreeing!

If you want to try it without registering on this copyright infringer's website, here's the direct link: http://movies.mxsinc.com/CherryOS_Software.zip

They're looking for someone experience in PEARL

cLive ;-)

It's very easy to make money with OSS but people always complain later ! So much for pretending being "open"...