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PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS
Varg Vikernes writes "PearPC developers are taking in donations to sue Maui X-Stream, the developers of the MAC emulator software CherryOS. There have been allegations that CherryOS is nothing more than PearPC code, which is open-source, but with a GUI attached to it. One of the PearPC developers tried to get in contact with someone from Maui X-Stream, but eventually were told to "speak with an Attorney" about the allegations. "
PearPc shouldnt do anything, That company will just suffer from a quick death, hell who would buy their product? After they realize how slow it is, they will probably ask for their money back.
keanmarine.com
GPL software developer suing blatant copyright infringer - GOOD
Music industry suing blatant copyright infringer - BAD
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Big money RIAA sueing broke college kids == bad broke FOSS developer sueing corporation that is using what he is giving away for free in a commercial product == good.
Now, if some independant songwriter, that generally gave his stuff away for free sued someone who took his song and made a commercial hit out of it, I bet the /. crowd would be on his bandwagon.
A developer trying to make something freely available needs to collect donations to get some legal team together to defend their work and keep the right to keep their name associated with THEIR work.
Perhaps they should contact these guys:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ (previously covered on slashdot)
Mac isn't a fscking acronym unless you're talking about Media Access Control addresses.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Because human beings are selfish.
Seriously. Piracy is about getting stuff for free without having to pay for it.
To justify doing this, people have created entire rationalizations in their heads. They've invented a faceless entity called the "RIAA" who does every evil thing you can imagine. I hear they even rip off artists! Though I never cite an actual, specific instance.
In reality, the RIAA has nothing to do with the contracts artists sign. The RIAA is just a lobbying group for the record labels, and artists hire entertainment lawyers to work out their contracts with the labels. And then willingly sign them.
People who have grown accustomed to downloading whatever they want for so long have decided they are freedom fighters fighting against the evil RIAA. The human beings they're ripping off--the artists--are never, ever mentioned. The reason being that it makes them realize how self-serving their behavior is. So artists are quietly pushed out of the discussion in order to bash the RIAA some more, as if that justifies violating intellectual property anyway.
Pirates are freeloaders who get bitter when the free ride is taken away. And now a lot of those same people expect everyone to follow the GPL. People have taken the concepts of free as in "speech" and free as in "beer" in the OSS world and applied it to the commercial world. Which then becomes free as in "loading."
daveschroeder is apparently doing quite well with first posts these days.
/. in order to see the stories as early as possible and then goes beserk up until the story goes live. If this is the case, then its just a clever way of karma whoring.
It may be possible that he "camps"
Do take my opinion with a grain of salt; I do have an axe to grind.