CherryOS May Not Be What it Claims

Wired has an interesting article about the new CherryOS that I blogged about previously. According to the Wired article a number of people have accused the CherryOS developers for stealing code from PearPC (open source emulator) that provides very similar functionality. The CherryOS makers claim that they have not done anything of the sort. One of the reasons why the CherryOS site has been down a number of times is because of crackers breaking into the site and maliciously damaging or disrupting the site. The true test to see if CherryOS is unique or not will be clear once it has been officially released and source code is provided to the PearPC developers to check, which will occur in a few days time. From my point of view I do not really care as PearPC has been released as open source under the GPL license that does not preclude the use of code for commercial products, but does retain a few restrictions. What I really worry about is wether CherryOS works better than PearPC and is easier to install and use and therefore worth spending the money on.

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Wired Article about CherryOS