"Maui X-Stream, a Hawaii-based software company that sells streaming video products, re-released the $50 CherryOS on Tuesday. The software emulates a G4 processor, allowing Windows XP machines to run Apple Computer's OS X operating system," reports Wired News.
"The company became embroiled in controversy last October when it offered a preview release, which experts said was simply a repackaging of a free, open-source emulator called PearPC.
"Nothing prevents CherryOS from using PearPC's code, since the open-source project is licensed under the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License, which allows anyone to use, modify, share or sell the code. However, the GNU General Public License has a clear stipulation: Anyone using or modifying the code must also license their product in the same way -- for free -- and provide the source code."
According to Smash, "A CherryOS trial version was released today (at cherryos.com), and the software is still absolute crap. ... Essentially, this software is a crappy Visual Basic application written on-top-of a separate PearPC modification."
Comment: Bear in mind that it's considered a victory if you can get PearPC to load. It's not a practical way of running software.
