CherryOS to be on TV
Early this morning I reached over someone to turn off the beeping noise and noticed my thumb hurt. I forgot about it until I realized holding my toothbrush really really hurt, and that the underside was red, raw, and practically had a little groove.
I also noticed a cracked bottle of ibuprofen next to the sink, so I can only surmise I tried to stave off what I knew would be a decent hangover by preemptively popping a few pills before crashing and didn't have the damn arrows on the bottle lined up. Judging by the stray pills on the floor, I'm also going to assume I gave up after awhile and just broke the bottle under my foot, took what I needed, and went to sleep.
Speaking of drunken ineptitude, if you get the G4 channel via cable, you can tune into Attack of the Show tonight at 7pm ET or 4pm PT and watch them demonstrate running Mac OS X on your PC via CherryOS. Every once in awhile someone asks me something along the lines of "Why on earth did Maui-X think they could get away with this?".
This type of thing, along with pieces like the one at MacObserver.com by Brad Gibson -- where he boils the evidence down to one sentence mentioning some forum post complaints -- is exactly why they'd think they'd have a shot. After crunching the numbers and demographics, it's not impossible to try to outrun the story and rake in some cash.
Posted by drunkenbatmanApril 06, 2005, at 10:04 AM
Comments (10)
Posted by: JBM at April 6, 2005 11:43 AM
I set my TiVo, it should be interesting. What are they planning to do when the CherryOS website is offline? Maui-X has terrible timing don't they...
Posted by: Walt H at April 6, 2005 12:04 PM
Admit it, 2/3rds of this is just to make us think of G4 as fools. :-) That's not journalism, that is good propoganda.
Posted by: CD at April 6, 2005 02:37 PM
http://www.cherryos.com/
"Due to Overwhelming Demand
Cherry Open Source Project
Launches 6.1.2005"
...and the audacity of the graphic :-/.
Too little too late.
Posted by: todd at April 6, 2005 06:59 PM
I'm going to bet that the cherryos.com site (the open source project) will be delayed past 5/1/2005 "due to overwhelming demand" to make sure that everything is "ready".
IMO, it's a tactic to get more public attention. Which has worked. You've got to give them *some* credit.
defintions:
*some* - meaning not a lot.
Posted by: mikey at April 6, 2005 07:42 PM
If they're gonna put the GNU logo on there... it better be GPL that they announce it's gonna be licensed under. Of course, I say announce, because they're obviously not gonna actually release it... I've gotta wonder how this makes anyone feel who already purchased a copy of the current (which one?) version of the product... hey, db, what's the current license for the commercial and demo versions say? How would that effect a GPL copy?
Posted by: Max Tudor at April 6, 2005 08:06 PM
I actually wasted most of an hour waiting for the segment only to see them yank it. They substituted a preview of a god aweful Dell gaming lap box. The most garish thing I have ever seen complete with add inserts for the cover ... ugh.
Posted by: drunkenbatman at April 6, 2005 08:38 PM
hey, db, what's the current license for the commercial and demo versions say? How would that effect a GPL copy?
Technically I believe it's all moot -- there's a clause in the GPL that is there to specifically avoid all of this happening. I.E., if you violate the GPL, a clause kicks in to termindate your license to use the code, which means you can't then under pressure just give away the source. The guys who put the GPL together have been remarkably long-sighted in this regard.
Unfortunately, if I had to guesstimate, they either aren't aware or are counting on enough people to go "Oh, come on, it's OSS, let it go" when that's brought up.
Posted by: Greg at April 6, 2005 09:31 PM
I actually wasted most of an hour waiting for the segment only to see them yank it. They substituted a preview of a god aweful Dell gaming lap box. The most garish thing I have ever seen complete with add inserts for the cover ... ugh.
*we now take a break from the topic at hand for a rant*
Figures.
This is embarrassing to admit but...I have watched G4-TV ever since it went on the air and it has never shown itself to be anything other than marketing disguised as entertainment. I have argued with my father for years about how music videos are more than advertisements for CD's.
I will never have such discussions about G4-TV.
G4-TV is total crap. Especially since they bought up Tech TV and systematically destroyed all of their shows and fired their best on-air talent. G4-TV is the Microsoft of television.
*end of rant*we now return you to the real topic at hand*
Posted by: Arty0M at April 7, 2005 10:54 AM
and they'r slashdoted
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/07/1157252&from=rss
So, wait, are you saying they ran CherryOS without the "this is a total pear-pc ripoff" disclaimer?? How is that even possible? Are there really people who have heard of CherryOS but haven't heard that it's a scam? That was the first thing I ever even heard about Cherry OS, long before you started blogging about it.
It's incredible that anyone could know about such an obscure bit of software without knowing the most important fact about it:
It's a complete scam!