Why open source can be bad

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Re: Why open source can be bad

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Well, I translated his ASM projects page, no credit is given to Dex in any way:
So ... :)
Assembler, what is it?
I would say that the machine language. ;)

In my opinion, a really cool language, only for more complex examples are a bit complicated and expensive.
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Here are my ASM - Sources:

* Cool for Part 4 virtual desktops
-> Windows

VWin0.9 Sources
VWin0.9 Binary

* My little OS;)
(Starts just the PC and waits
touch for Restart)
* Chaos (Reinhartshausen OS written in ASM)
* LukeOS (same as above)

My little OS

Chaos
LukeOS
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Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
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Thanks for the hint on "Translate", I hadn't realized the page was in German (hadn't bothered to visit it before).

I believe here's a misunderstanding happening.

The author of the website (as can be seen on the page About / Ich ("me")), is named Christoph Woergi (which is likely true given the domain name).

He doesn't claim credit for "LukeOS", only for the first of the three "OS" downloads.

http://woergi.is-a-geek.org/src/asm/os/ ... uke_os.asm reads "LukeOS V0.02 (c) Luke Bowes, All rights reserved. www.lukeos.u13.biz". (The domain being unavailable.)

So I guess you're barking up the wrong tree here - the website author seems to have gotten that "LukeOS" somewhere and put it up as an example of ASM code in action. I guess a friendly e-mail might do the trick, and you'll have "LukeOS" dropped in favor of "DexOS"...
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Thank for all your support, i have email the person and will take it from there, i will let you know what response i get.
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Well, I hope this turns out favourably :)
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Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
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Iirc, 'lukeos' is a member of this forum. You could also PM him?


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jal wrote:Iirc, 'lukeos' is a member of this forum. You could also PM him?


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Nope, that's lukem95. No lukeos here.
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Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
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Troy Martin wrote:Nope, that's lukem95. No lukeos here.
Then I'm pretty sure he also(?) names his OS LukeOS? Or is my memory screwing with me?


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jal wrote:
Troy Martin wrote:Nope, that's lukem95. No lukeos here.
Then I'm pretty sure he also(?) names his OS LukeOS? Or is my memory screwing with me?


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Your memory is borked. Buy some new chips and get a friend to install them for you.
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Solar wrote:It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
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Troy Martin wrote:Your memory is borked. Buy some new chips and get a friend to install them for you.
Yup, time for an upgrade...


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jal wrote:
Troy Martin wrote:Nope, that's lukem95. No lukeos here.
Then I'm pretty sure he also(?) names his OS LukeOS? Or is my memory screwing with me?


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IIRC his OS is called CakeOS.
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AlexExtreme wrote:IIRC his OS is called CakeOS.
Indeed it is. http://code.google.com/p/cakeos/
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I do not think the person that ripped my code and lukem95, are anything to do with each other, just simular user names.
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