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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. And what about VX30? by wan-fu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The company still hasn't answered any questions about VX30 (possible GPL violation?). Does anyone have news/updates about this?

  2. Re:Shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it only takes a clever delevoper to make it boot Mac OS X. Which would be awesome.

    It would be a much smarter developer who could get Mac OS 9 booting on an emulator. Why bother emulating what's essentially Just Another Unix, when you can run something truly unique and elegant that you can't get anywhere else.

  3. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh yeah, I know - everyone out there who has their certain opinion about me will have their great comment hour right now. Its ok I expect that anyway

    So you should, scum. Code that I wrote for PearPC was found in CherryOS, and you went along with the bullshit that it was only similar because it "ran the apple code".

    You're a liar and a thief.

  4. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by civilizedINTENSITY · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gotta admit calling someone "scum", followed by "liar and copyright infringer" doesn't have the same emotional impact. It is even almost funny.

    To the Anon Coward whose code was inappropriately copied, you have my sympathy.

  5. What about the code they ripped off? by mikesown · · Score: 2, Interesting

    CherryOS has ripped off a lot of code from pearpc(licenced under the GPL). Shouldn't they be sued regaurdless of weather they plan to distribute it furter? Isn't this just a message saying 'Yeah you can attempt to rip off out code, you can just stop development and not release the source code if you happen to get caught'