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CherryOS is dead! Long live PearPC!
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!"
Apparently, he means that he couldn't dress up an open source project enough before violating the copyright. Strange justification for stopping. Or maybe his potential customer realized that they were dealing with a crook and the 'worth' evaporated.
A license violation is a license violation. Stopping now does not undo the past violations. They did profit from license violation, and that violation must be paid, one way or another.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
You're a liar and a thief.
He's a liar, a copyright infringer and a plagiarist. He's not a thief.
I think he's scum too, but that doesn't change the nature of his actions.
Sometimes its better to just let things go . Sure a case may have ment another Test of the GPL in court , but it would also mean the folks behind PearPC would have less time to hack away at the code.
.Far better this I say than making a few more lawyers rich off of IP litegation.
With the demise of CherryOS , most likely from the presure of the aligations, We can rest easy for now . It may not be an ideal victory , but a victory non the less
It atleast shows that the community and the GPL are begining to hold alot more sway
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
no, if this thieving and plagerising two-legged sack of crap gets away with his actions, then other companies may feel the potential benefits of stealing open source code and claiming it as their own outway the consequences of discovery. Look at SCO, they not only used GPL code, but then try to extort license fees for and claim ownership of GPL code. This evil has to be nipped in the bud NOW, or the freedoms that open source developers give to the users, and the freedoms we users have will be taken away.
Ummm... who is gonna sue CherryOS? The developement team on PearPC? I'm sure that it's not worth the cost of a lawsuit. CherryOS is done, finished, kaput; we can all get back to life now that this little episode is over.
There is no such thing as "intellectual property" except as a bad metaphor. Ideas are not the same as real estate or physical objects.
There are legal entities of copyright, trademark, and patents. Violating these may be illegal, but is not theft, it is infringement of the copyright/patent/trademark.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
You cannot wash away blood with blood
Arben seemed to be doing just fine until he pulled this cheap stunt. I'll bet a lunch at L&L Drive Inn that Jim told Arben to pull the plug on this Cherry thing, once he realized that the bad PR threatened to shit-stain his business reputation. I wouldn't doubt that Kartes lacked the technical saavy to know that his partner was utitilizing the work of others without attribution... until it was spelled out to him by the "lynch-mob".
Luke, help me take this mask off
Read the pearpc-devel mailing list or the PearPC.net forums - there are updates to the code daily! Just because they haven't released a new stable version, it doesn't mean that the development is dead. The developers of PearPC are working on OpenBIOS support, enhanced Altivec and hwmmu.