Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-24 Thread Jim Thompson
someone was recently asking of the GPL had been tested in-court. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050225223848129

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-22 Thread Tim Newsham
There seem to be a lot more than that one page: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000501.html If you follow the links in any of these pages, you can find more and more. Some of this may not be proven in a legal sense, but I think its unlikely that there's no code shared between

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-21 Thread Jim Thompson
The latest in this sad saga: http://www.ht-technology.com/cherryos-pearpc/cherryos-pearpc.html On Mar 12, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Vince Hoang wrote: A big stumbling block is that a bunch of guys contributing code in their spare time after work generally don't have the money necessary to launch a

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-21 Thread Tim Newsham
The latest in this sad saga: http://www.ht-technology.com/cherryos-pearpc/cherryos-pearpc.html libhfs -- Is this cpt? http://libhfs.sourceforge.net/license.php Not a gnu license. cygwin -- you can link against cygwin's .a/.dll in commercial products

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-21 Thread Eric Hattemer
Tim Newsham wrote: The latest in this sad saga: http://www.ht-technology.com/cherryos-pearpc/cherryos-pearpc.html There seem to be a lot more than that one page: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000501.html If you follow the links in any of these pages, you can find more and

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-15 Thread J. David Beutel
Jim Thompson wrote, on 2005-Mar-13 12:29 AM: The EFF is full of evil people (some are good, but the organization has broken down and there is a lot of in-fighting now.) Evil? Who, Brad? You haven't forgiven him his rec.humor.funny megalomania? Cheers, 11011011

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-15 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:42 PM, J. David Beutel wrote: Jim Thompson wrote, on 2005-Mar-13 12:29 AM: The EFF is full of evil people (some are good, but the organization has broken down and there is a lot of in-fighting now.) Evil? Who, Brad? You haven't forgiven him his rec.humor.funny

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-13 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 12, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Vince Hoang wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:56:49PM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: If you're curious as to why Maui X-Stream, Inc. isn't being forced to stop what they're doing, this is where things get a little tricky.

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-12 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Tom Gordon wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: Recently I had some very, very disturbing news passed onto me regarding what's going on with the product known as CherryOS. I just ignore them and they go away. Attention is what they seek. IIRC, it is only PearPC's

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-12 Thread Tom Gordon
Jim Thompson wrote: Theft is theft, even if the thing being stolen was free. Theft isn't theft if it isn't reported to the authorities. Read the link, plenty of people are pissed-off, people who have code in pearpc. Useless comments on a blog? Is this CherryOS's blog? Is there a

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-12 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:56:49PM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: If you're curious as to why Maui X-Stream, Inc. isn't being forced to stop what they're doing, this is where things get a little tricky. http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/15/news/story2.html

[LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-11 Thread Jim Thompson
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000501.html --- Recently I had some very, very disturbing news passed onto me regarding what's going on with the product known as CherryOS. There's been a lot of buzz about Cherry OS lately -- since they started actually selling their product

Re: [LUAU] a different open source issue, from Maui

2005-03-11 Thread Tom Gordon
Jim Thompson wrote: Recently I had some very, very disturbing news passed onto me regarding what's going on with the product known as CherryOS. I just ignore them and they go away. Attention is what they seek. IIRC, it is only PearPC's place to stake a claim and they haven't asked me for