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CherryOS Goes Open Source

Posted by Zonk on from the curiouser-and-curiouser dept.

netsniper writes "The CherryOS website now acknowledges a forthcoming alliance with Open Source Software! After going 'on hold' recently, a re-release of CherryOS is purported to be coming in May according to the site. This is great news on the surface, but let's see how it pans out. This move is probably a result of the many reviews of their product that set out to prove it was bogus."

3 of 370 comments (clear)

  1. Its too late for this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The developer of the Altivec emulation (the one who was collecting money for a lawsuit) has already revoked their rights to his code. Even if they try to open source they still have problems as they are now dealing with copyrighted code.

  2. Re:It's Easy by mikepaktinat · · Score: 5, Informative
    And if you use source code from another project (PearPC), then you have to acknowledge it.

    The problem being that the developer has sworn up and down that he used none of the PearPC code.
  3. Re:A charitable view... by saddino · · Score: 5, Informative

    That was my initial impression as well, but that is clearly not the case. As the developer, Arben Kryesiu has been extremely vocal about his "creation" of CherryOS and has granted many interviews proudly describing his "inspiration" to write CherryOS -- hardly a "fly-by-night" developer who got caught up in a lie and skipped town after delivering a bogus product.

    The "company" that owns CherryOS, Maui-X Stream, has the following in their bio:

    Jim Kartes is the president of Maui-X Stream. He and Arben Kryesiu started the company in the winter of 2003.

    So, this publicity hounding "developer" is a also co-founder of the company, and hence: the company is not an innocent player in all of this.