CherryOS Goes Open Source 370
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."
how lies work... (Score:5, Interesting)
CherryOS will never look that cool to any of us, because they only came clean because of being caught in a lie.
Re:Nothing to see. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Ummm... (Score:5, Interesting)
So they can contribute (Score:0, Interesting)
what happens if.. (Score:1, Interesting)
Wouldn't this also allow them to get off scott-free in any court case? Or atleast have the court case dropped?
It's a little ickier than that. (Score:4, Interesting)
Notice how they can abbreviate that to
Cherry O. S. Project
and thence to
Cherry OS Project
and thence to
CherryOS Project
and finally
CherryOS.
I gotta respect them -- they're not just a _bit_ slimy, they are slimier than Fungus the Bogeyman in a barrel of natto!
Cherry OS using the gnu-head . . . (Score:3, Interesting)
Can Cherry OS put that on their website? Because they've alledgedly packaged up GPL software and sold it as their own closed source software, would the FSF allow them to use one of their trademarks?
I am surprised by this behavior and chalk it up to what appears to me to be blatant disregard for GPL and the law.
Re:Ummm... (Score:2, Interesting)
Shareaza suffers from this a lot: this free, open source application has been rebranded under a lot of different names (Etomi, bt86, etc.). Some sell the application (they actually sell 'support', if you read the fine print, with the 'support' being a copy of the Shareaza wiki), some bundle spyware with it, most do both.
Limewire suffers from that too, and eMule probably too.
They get users by paying for google ads that come up when you search for 'mp3 downloading' or similar. I guess it's true that a lot of people can't tell the difference between a genuine search result and an ad.
Re:Still violating GPL? (Score:1, Interesting)
No, of course not.
They haven't signed the GPL, so, as the GPL itself says, they are not bound by its terms. Therefore, that term does not apply to them if they do not accept it, and they are free to subsequently accept the terms of the GPL and make use of PearPC under it.
They still aren't off the hook, though - the PearPC developers can still sue them for the copyright violations they have committed in the past.
Re:Still violating GPL? (Score:1, Interesting)
Have they actually commited any copyright violations yet? Have they actually violated the GPL yet?
I only know what I have read on
If they have not actually distributed CherryOS yet, how can they be in violation of the GPL?
(and yes, if they have been distributing it, then this is moot)
release the installer code (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:CherryOS "Inventor" can't even ... (Score:1, Interesting)
I've only ever heard that on American TV - in the UK we say 7th of April, 2005 instead.
DDMMYYYY is a logical order in that it starts specific and becomes more general, much like postal addresses.
YYYYMMDD is great for numeric sorting in computing, as it's correct for date order too.
I can't really see any good reason to use MMDDYYYY at all, except "it matches the common spoken form in US English". Perhaps it's just another American mutation from real English, like dropping the 'u' in colour.
It won't happen (Score:3, Interesting)
I have (Score:5, Interesting)
I have. But have you heard of a small legal principle called 'due process'? Once you've legally established that 4 has been violated, the license is revoked. It said so in the next sentence. Your claim that the license has been violated is not a conviction.
Otherwise IBM would have had to stop shipping AIX long ago based on SCOs claim that the license is revoked. See the difference? If you want to terminate their license, you must prove (a preponderance of evidence) that there are grounds for termination.
Kjella
Curiouser and Curiouser... (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.mxsinc.com/ [mxsinc.com]
Re:It won't happen (Score:2, Interesting)
CherryOS is not his only problem. (Score:4, Interesting)
XviD
MplayerC (windows gui frontend)
FileDropListCtrl (no credit was given)
DEFLATE code
Inflate code
JOrbis
LAME
Arben et al are lately trying to hide the stolen code by packing the executables via UPX or some similar or slightly modified PE compressor, so the analasys is being done on memory dumps of the binaries after decompression.
Their VX30 products are priced from $1,000 up. Oddly enough, the VX30 product actually seems to work pretty well. At least in this particular case, it's a shame that with little more effort and perhaps the choice of a couple different libraries and methods of writing their application that could have legally produced and sold this product... at least until people find more stolen code in it
Re:Can they do this? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:It's Easy (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:It's Easy (Score:1, Interesting)