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DrunkenBlog: Deconstructing Maui X-Stream

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 11, 2005

“Now, you may be curious as to why a company named Maui X-Stream
(MXS) has a problem with me to the point where they’re essentially
telling me they’re trying to figure out how to sue me, they happen
to be the company that birthed CherryOS upon the world. CherryOS is
the PowerPC emulator specifically geared for running Mac OS X on
Windows machines, and detailing the claims regarding it by it’s
creator — along with the CEO — would take an entire chapter by
itself.

“If you’ll recall, awhile back I wrote The Pits in CherryOS, and
several follow-ups, detailing and explaining the evidence that
CherryOS was really code from the open-sourced PowerPC emulator
PearPC, along with infringing code from numerous other open-sourced
projects…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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