[Ti] [OT] humor from slashdot

[Chris Olson]

On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:16 AM, Lisbeth Zachs wrote:

> "It's not a hoax," Kryeziu added in response to widespread skepticism 
> about CherryOS on the net. "We have a name and a reputation. We need 
> to protect that."
>
> I wonder what the reputation will be after this?  At least they 
> certainly have a reputation now – the question is which kind. :-)

Last night I posted a rather long summary of events that has taken 
place since Tuesday with CherryOS.  My post was caught by the message 
size filter, requires list moderator approval, so it never made it to 
the list.

CherryOS is not only a hoax, Leander Kahney was used as the medium to 
get the story to Wired.com, and subsequently Slashdot, so a small 
company named VX30 in Hawaii could stress test a Java based streaming 
media application they developed.  The CherryOS application turned out 
to be a rip-off of an open source GPL project called PearPC.  What 
started out as humor from Slashdot may turn into lawsuit from FSF 
against CherryOS (if the product is ever released).

Leander Kahney will be reporting all the details on Wired.com on Monday.
--
Chris