Statement from David Tavares, PearOS developer. Translated by Rosa Guillén, compiled by Yoyo
Pear OS and Pear Cloud are no longer available for download.
His future is now in the hands of a company that wants to remain anonymous for now. They liked the concept and now want to continue and improve the system for their own products. I cannot give a name, but it is a well-known large company ...
I want to thank all the users, moderators and other developers who have made Pear OS what it is today, without them this adventure would not have been possible.
I'm going in another direction.
Another big thank you to everyone and I look forward to getting back to the open source scene very quickly.
Sincerely.
David
Several doubts arise:
1) Who will have "bought" PearOS?
2) Will business be built with the latest isos as Yoyo and René Lopez say?
3) Does Ubuntu matter with the look of an OS X?
I have one doubt left. If it was Free Software, how did a person (Founder or not) of said project have been able to sell it just like that? But if it was GPL. So those who bought it will have to continue developing it as a GPL. Or maybe Apple bought it just to get rid of the competition and just let it die.
that is what I say!
Well, there are many ways ... if this person has a company that has this development, they can do it perfectly. I doubt very much that the creator has left this loose end when even free distros have associations behind their development with the corresponding copyrights
I never liked the distribution of the pear :), but in diversity is the taste. I use Kubuntu since version 10.10, since I dislike unity in Ubuntu, which I used since version 9. I'm from Montevideo, Paso Molino.
A pleasure. The Commercial.
- It can all be a big lie and not accept failure or the desire to continue and leave it that way
- maybe apple or mocosoft bought it or rebuked it
- I don't think business with the old isos, nor that it was something stable and complete ...
- Nothing was commented on the version for Tablets that they were looking for founding.
I highly doubt the latter.
Otherwise I think it is simply a lie.
did you see this?
http://icarly.wikia.com/wiki/Pear_Company
That series ended a year ago. Although it leaves the hypothesis that Disney buys it for a spinoff.
It seems to me a good hypothesis, that would explain that they were not really interested in the distro itself but in the figure of the bitten pear. It causes me confusion:
1. Sell a distro made with free software
steam i don't buy any distro ... nor google when i develop android taking the linux kernel
2. That someone bought a distro that is not very popular
although it could be that I bought it Orale only to spoil one more software ... although even for that Oracle already has Solaris, right? Of the entire fruit market, being interested in a pear makes me think that the buyer does not have imagination or knowledge to develop your own SO with another fruit, a pineapple, melon, watermelon. because to buy the concept of PearOS is to copy the concept of MacOS.
and since there is no more information, one can continue to speculate and ramble.
Most likely, Viacom wants to be interested in supporting Pear OS, but promoting it to the staunch iCarly fans.
in case the sale is true, for me it was more because of the name and the logo, not because of the system ...
Fuck
You got me thinking.
This may be a Viacom ruse.
Good! by PearOS, I already said it, the best of Linux, Outbox to evangelize, not suitable for fans.
Well, when you mention it, it makes me think you're already a fan. this comment makes no sense
Changos !!!
And I thought to download it in the week to try it 🙁 in the end I'll be left with the desire
Do you make an "open source" system for this? To sell it to the highest bidder? And the GNU license does not protect the versions already created under that license?
Well, what news. Imagine that they did the same with Debian or Ubuntu ...
They can do it clearly, another thing is that you can continue to obtain the code, but they can.
I really don't think you can. If you make a product under a License that tells you that you can only distribute said product under the same license, the only case that can occur is that "the company" buys the product and somehow later changes the license to one less commercially restrictive.
About the article ... this gives me many things to think about:
1- The PearOS developer was only looking for an end like this, to sell the product, something that I do not see badly because nobody knows the needs of each person, but that leaves their Community behind (if they had).
2- A company that buys the product can be to eliminate it from the competition? or to improve it, something that does not seem to me to be the case.
Anyway, another one who dies ...
Between buying the product and changing the license there is a sea, you can buy a music cd but you cannot change the distribution license, so that we understand each other, the same with the gpl.
The other thing is that I can buy the distro, put it software with a license that only allows redistribution in my distro and therefore continue to leave the rest as free distribution code, but I still have an advantage by having certain programs only for my distro.
The PEAROS license was never clear 😉
I understand….
Those in the PearOS community must feel DOWN!
Reason more than enough not to recommend this distro.
Clara is always there who were not clear were her users
You yourself have said it is open source and not free software .. in that distro not only has gnu licenses there are many others so I do not see why these people have to have a religious commitment in this regard. I think you are wrong about the opinion in that sense the other thing is that you can always do it yourself, it is not that it is impossible or in any case to discard this distro one that is in line with what you think.
the truth is that its latest version had several interesting things, but it was full of errors the distro
Maybe the errors were only layer 8
If someone would still be interested in downloading the latest version (although if they customized some other repository I do not know if it will work completely correct)
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Pear-Linux-76309.shtml
For me it was bought by Apple. Quack!
Hug! Paul.
FOR ME THAT WNDOWS IS BEHIND SEEING THIS A LITTLE AGE
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pear-OS-8-Could-Arrive-on-Microsoft-Surface-Tablet-398758.shtml
Well, for me it is pure paj ... that distribution gave me a little disgust for what it represented, and I don't think many will miss it either.
Both PearOs and Elementary I believed they would take the same path ... However PearOs always saw it as the «Chinese Mac Os X for children» (+7 onwards) xD He lost conviction (as did his statement….) And a correct approach towards the users. On the other hand Elementary although I had my doubts, I see a promising future 😀 An essence with slow steps… But its own! So the farewell to PearOs was the best thing that happened to him in a long time
I think it's the best that can happen. This distro had nothing but an anecdotal future. Having or achieving some kind of success was going to mean possible lawsuits for infringement of copy right. It may be nice (depending on who? Very subjective.), But emulation is not the way. In my point of view, each desktop has its pros and cons, what is lacking is the dissemination about it. I remembered the post by @Usemoslinux where he talks about De Icaza's opinion about the death of GNU / Linux on the desktop, and where he says that OS X won the war .. The war has not been lost. GNU / Linux does not have a company with exclusive hardware or companies with which the different distros have exclusive contracts. As Linus Torvalds said it all depends on whether it comes pre-installed on the machines. I think that the turning point on the desktop will be the Steam OS system, which is the closest attempt to what Apple does and is intended for the masses (well gamers haha). If it is successful, the long-awaited overcrowding may be fulfilled, as happened in the Android mobile market. The only thing I hope is that they change the prehistoric design of the steam machines hahaha. Regards.