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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. "
but eventually were told to "speak with an Attorney" about the allegations."
In other words, "STFU."
The preceding message was based on actual events. Only the names, locations and events have been changed.
Turd POst
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
A NIC emulator? Maybe the submitter meant that it's a PowerPC emulator.
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.
Stop wasting your time and energy. PearPC will benefit much more from time in a debugger than from time in an attorney's office. The money is wasted. Nobody wins except for the lawyers.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
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)
The pear or the cherry?
Before you can make money on anything, the damn thing has to work. Even if you did steal it from somewhere else and rebrand it, if it won't install or run as promised when the end user gets it, how long can it survive?
Personally, I couldn't get CherryOS to work. PearPC on the other hand, did, no doubt in large part due to the docs they had available.
BUT, even after installing it and trying to get stuff set up, I found it easier (if you have the funding, say from work) to just buy a Mac mini and a KVM or app like Timbuktu.
I do think it (PearPC) is an awesome piece of work and would hope that it continues. I can't say that for CherryOS.
R(k)
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!
The money-making issue is a red herring. It's irrelevant.
The double-standard is over the application of intellectual property rights. What right do the GPL authors have to sue someone who violates the GPL? Intellectual property rights, that's what.
Whether or not a company tries to make money off of the GPL isn't the issue here. In both cases of violating copyright of the GPL and violating copyright of media content on P2P networks, intellectual property rights are violated for someone else's gain.
I speak out about this because I'm tired of the double-standard that people don't even seem to notice. If you're going to advance the cause of the GPL, you have to respect the very ideas it's based on. You can't turn it into some special-case scenario that only applies when a fellow GPL author's rights are being violated. It has to apply to everyone fairly. That includes the artists whose music was put out for sale but was then ripped and stuck on P2P networks for people to buy without having to pay for it.
epic battle of intellectual property the way we define it, against the way they define it.
Intellectual property = Pirating on P2P is okay, but pirating GPL code is not? What is the difference really between "their" definition intellectual property and yours? Both get violated, and both result in lawsuits based on the same kinds of laws.
Wow, links to +5 comments on Slashdot that agree with your position? Talk about objective evidence!
What makes me a "troll" is the fact you disagree with me and feel the need to demonize me for it. There is a moderation bias. RIAA rantings get upmodded. Very few anti-piracy posts get modded up. Often, they are modded down. Need proof? My post is no longer at +4.
retard!
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
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.
Well, let me try and Karma whore a little. I'm the guy who's webpage you all made cry like a poor old 486.
Since the donation stuff is essentially completely down now, I'll post it here for anyone who wishes to donate.
The email address for the PayPal account is krach42@gmail.com
Just send money to that address, title it something like "PearPC/GPL Defense Fund" and it'll get used for that.
In fact, I don't use my paypal for anything else, so even if you don't title the money like that, it'll still get used for PearPC/GPL defense.
I am unamerican, and proud of it!