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Finding the Pits In CherryOS

Posted by timothy on from the light-the-bombeck-beacon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DrunkenBlog is carrying a story with piles of gathered evidence (including screenshots of code diffs) exposing the speed claims of CherryOS, and that the company behind it (Maui X-Stream) is not only stealing code from the open source project PearPC but at least several other OSS projects too. There are some choice quotes from PearPC developers on how it is harming their project. They appear to have a strong case, but enforcing the GPL could take help."

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  1. Warez too! by sH4RD · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this thread on PearPC.net, he is using a warez'd copy of several programs as well.

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  2. already slow... by Neophytus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Article through coral

    Article through mirrordot

  3. Copyright infringement is NOT THEFT! by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is copyright infringement, just like the subject says.

    It does not matter who's copyright is being infringed or who is claiming it, it is STILL NOT THEFT.

    I'll bet I'll be modded down now, since this sort of thing is only accepable on an anti *AA thread.

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  4. Re:The sad truth... by dominator · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's not true at all. I've hashed it out with a few corporations over wvWare, my MSWord reading library. Usually the threat of action is enough to have the infringers quaking in their boots, and coax them into complaince. When it's not enough, you've got the FSF all-too willing to come to your aide:

    http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violatio n.html

    Regarding these cases, Eben Moglen (the FSF's general legal counsel) once told me that the reason you've never seen a GPL violation case go to court is because it's always a slam-dunk case that will be decided in your favor; that it's always in the infringer's best interest to settle out of court. I don't know how self-serving that statement was, but it's worth pondering at least. It's been my experience, in any case.

  5. Re:The sad truth... by tomjen · · Score: 5, Informative

    No you need assitance from the GNU foundation - they have the lawyers (two law professors if i am not mistaken) and they would like to fry that company - then everybody would fear and respect the GPL.

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  6. Not everybody knows by Craig+Ringer · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's the issue. Not everybody knows. I saw a post on the local Mac user group list (I support macs at work so I need to keep track) about CherryOS. They had no idea of the issues involved and the article they referred to did not mention them.

    It's worth making some noise even about something this blatant.

  7. Re:Hypocrisy.. by polyp2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thats bollocks!
    PearPC - While able to run OSX - it is simply an emulation of PPC hardware. There are plenty of operating systems that PearPC can run eg: linux, bsd , beos etc. It is upto the person running the emulator whether they violate apples licensing agreement.

    Cherry OS however - albeit the same thing as PearPC are explicitly advertising their (stolen) product for the purpose of running OSX. They are much more likely to find themselves on the end of an apple lawsuit than the PearPC developers.

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  8. Re:The sad truth... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Informative
    FSF does not own copyrights on the Linux kernel, and I don't know of anyone who has come to FSF who does own such copyrights. But we now have the resources to pursue such matters outside of FSF. I would like to hear from kernel copyright holders who would help with that. If we let the unauthorized derivative works go on for too long, I'm afraid we will create an estoppel that would limit the effect of the GPL.

    Bruce

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  9. Why not do something about this? by Amich · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's obvious this sort of thing is an outrage, and we should stand up and do something better than preaching to the choir on Slashdot.

    This story made me decide to donate to the PearPC project http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=1 08675 . I'm sure if enough donations piled up, PearPC's authors would go after CherryOS in court.