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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. Text of Arben's blog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The last bite on CherryOS

    I decided that C-OS is not worth the hassle, not now or in the future. C-OS went to work without brushing its teeth or taking a shower, it was not ready.

    Other current open source projects are progressing to the desired product; Qemu will soon support OS X and lead the way. Or maybe I am wrong and someone else will make a fast lead.

    I love my Mac and would never switch back, sure I use my PC for work but that is just a bad habit that I am trying to get rid of. A friend of mine asked me why I am still creating software for Windows and that question is not getting out of my head. 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.

    Now what?

    Don't know and won't know for a while.

    I will go kite boarding or go fishing, get some air before I go back to my beloved square box. Tiger is great, amazing features and I love the hidden details. Don't know how Longhorn is going to compete with this OS now, would love to know what BG has planned for the future of Windows other than the marketing details.

    What will change everything is WIFIMAX, wow it will be the first step into a security nightmare and communication dreamland.

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

    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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    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. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 3, Insightful
      It's theft of intellectual property.

      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.

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  3. Re:Shame by rogabean · · Score: 4, Informative

    On what do you base that PearPC is dead?
    PearPC happens to be very much alive and alot of work is still actively being done on it...
    see: PearPC.net

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  4. Re:Why isn't the legal case moving forward anyways by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    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 .Far better this I say than making a few more lawyers rich off of IP litegation.

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