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CherryOS is dead! Long live PearPC!

Posted by timothy on from the now-it's-officious dept.

trygvebw writes "Earlier today, an entry was posted on Arben Kryzeiu's blog, stating that he was stopping development of CherryOS. CherryOS was an application sold by MXS, inc, which was clearly an illegal rip-off of the open-source PowerPC emulator PearPC. CherryOS is dead, long live PearPC!"

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  1. great! by croddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    now, what about those video codec products that are full of GPL'ed code?

  2. Re:Shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    because os9 is a shitty buggy operating system, and x86 machines already have Windows to fill that role.

  3. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by rogabean · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah another slashdot semantic war over the word "stolen".

    v. stole, (stl) stolen, (stln) stealing, steals:

    1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.

    Did he or did he not take property? The code belonged to the developers. He had taken code that belonged to someone and else.

    It's theft of intellectual property. Yes it's plagiarism as well. I consider plagiarism just another form of theft.

    To steal doesn't imply that the victim no longer has something. It states that something was taken from them.

    Bah! it's Saturday and I'm arguing semantics on Slashdot.

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