OSDir: To Evil!: To Evil! of October 2004 | Linux Today

OSDir: To Evil!: To Evil! of October 2004

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 10, 2004

“By their fruits ye shall know them, we are told. Time once
again to look at last month’s open source devilry, select three
nominations for Most Evil Conducted This Month, and ask: how about
*them* apples?

“CherryOS, you may recall, was a piece of software that promised
to run Mac software on the PC. Run it fast too: as fast as a
(currently not invented) 2.7Ghz G4 when emulated under a 3.2Ghz
Pentium…”

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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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