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CherryOS On Hold

aberkvam writes "MacWorld is reporting that CherryOS is "On Hold - until further notice." Does this mean that they are going to confirm that they used PearPC's code or is this just a delaying tactic due to the potentially pending lawsuit? Slashdot has covered this saga before."

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  1. wrong season by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    the last i checked, cherry harvest begins in june

    1. Re:wrong season by Frac · · Score: 4, Funny

      the last i checked, cherry harvest begins in june

      The last I checked, cherry harvest begins starting spring break, in Cancun and Miami.

  2. You think? by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without undermining due process, i think its pretty obvious that they are as guilty as a man with shit on his dick standing stark naked next to a goat.

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    1. Re:You think? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wiping mental picture caused by parent

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    2. Re:You think? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      It's not working!!

      Dammit....

      pass12543...

    3. Re:You think? by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny

      My brain uses older technology. I just hold my head upside-down and shake it.

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    4. Re:You think? by puddpunk · · Score: 2, Funny

      Someone pass me the brain bleach. PLEASE

    5. Re:You think? by glen604 · · Score: 4, Funny

      If the goat doesn't fit, you must acquit!

  3. Various conspiracy theories... by jd · · Score: 5, Funny
    • They are planning to buy out PearPC, so that there is nobody left to sue them
    • CherryOS is being developed by the Amiga OS development team
    • Microsoft bought both, the Amiga AND the Vatican
    • Investors pulled out when they realised that Cherry is a really pathetic name - and I'm pretty sure it's already trademarked for some other computer equiptment
    • Both operating systems, all companies involved and the entire case was fabricated by the same UK journalist who invented "toothing"


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    1. Re:Various conspiracy theories... by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's see. Apple. Peachtree. Orange are a cell phone vendor. Blackberry. I'm pretty sure there was a Cherry that made computer keyboards. SCO is a lemon. Acorn isn't strictly a fruit, but they're nuts anyway.

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    2. Re:Various conspiracy theories... by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, it appears that SCO invented Apple, and are charging $699 US for each copy of CherryOS downloaded, installed or referred to on the web.

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  4. Too bad by Stick_Fig · · Score: 3, Funny

    Guess they're like a hot virgin at a Star Trek convention, too afraid of a bunch of nerds popping their Cherry.

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  5. Of course its on hold! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... They are waiting for PearPC to finish up all of the CherryOS promised features first!

  6. Cherry O's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news
    Cherry OS has decided to restructure and rename their company/product, in response to a possible lawsuit.

    Their new name is no Cherry O's, and they well now be selling breakfast cereal.

    Later that day Kellogg's has announced they are seeking to sue Cherry O's claiming that the company "Just slapped a sticker on our boxes of Apple Jacks"

    A Cherry O's spokesman was quoted in saying "I don't know what the problem is, we both use the cereal language."

  7. Re:Why does everything take so damned long? by mattkime · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was organizing an angry mob of gnu/linux hippies to burn his house but no one wanted to leave their parents basement. :(

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  8. Re:too right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe the GP was being sarcastic. Here, I'll draw it out for you:

    * ---- Joke

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    -|- --- You
    /\

    Any questions?

  9. "Cherry" and "pulled out" in same sentence by KingFatty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heheh, you used "cherry" and "pulled out" in the same sentence. You dirty, dirty bird.

  10. Can anyone help? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm trying to run the mac port of Doom3 on OS 10.3.8 under CherryOS running on Virtual PC on OS 9.2.1 running on Pear PC using OS X 10.2.4 under Guest PC running BeOS on my G3 Beige Mac.

    All I'm getting is a black screen. Is there something wrong, or am I playing the game already?

    1. Re:Can anyone help? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      on my G3 Beige Mac.
      BS! Everyone knows Macs aren't beige!

    2. Re:Can anyone help? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Leave a white one in sunlight long enough and it will be.

    3. Re:Can anyone help? by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you need to rewrite your dynamic memory modules so they don't get corrupted by the electron oscillation in the cross-channelled capacitors.
      The problem is, all these operating systems use different sizes of electrons. You have to use a virtual compiler to reinstate the Java Virtual Machine on an ISA Port, and that will enable your electrons to recalibrate.
      As you know, the monitor works with an electron gun. Your different size electrons are probably hitting the monitor at the same time, and the wave function is collapsing on the epsilon-null equation and causing them to cancel out.

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    4. Re:Can anyone help? by DennisZeMenace · · Score: 3, Funny

      All I'm getting is a black screen. Is there something wrong, or am I playing the game already?

      A black screen ? You're definitely playing the game already.

  11. Re:too right by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is there a litte star named "joke" so far above that little person's head?

  12. AHHHH... If I Recall Correctly... by cbreaker · · Score: 3, Funny

    IIRC, you said IIRC four times in one paragraph. IIRC that's just too much, if IIRC from school. We don't need to know IIRC, because IIRW, someone will correct me, IIRC how Slashdot works.

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  13. Who the hell cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The GPL is invalid, its an illegal and immoral license and is non-enforcable. That is why I will never use Linux or any GPL software EVER. I would only use Solaris for any UNIX development I had to do.

  14. You got it wrong by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's Netcraft that confirms things around here, not Netsniper.

    1. Re:You got it wrong by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh come on, Netcraft is dead. Netsniper confirms it.

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  15. Re:too right by Totally49 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh. My. Gawd. How stupid can YOU be....

    "That's AN asterisk, not a star."
    Sorry... couldn't resist!