Editing CherryOS (section)

===Pre-release version===
Initially the company did not offer a trial version of CherryOS, citing concerns the code might be pirated. However,<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  "as a direct result of the overwhelming response to our October 12 announcement,"<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/> as of October 15 the company was readying a free [[Software release life cycle#BETA|beta]] version<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/> with a projected release date of November 25, 2004.<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/><ref name="coswwired"/> On October 18, Kryeziu stated that a free public demo would be released within a week,<ref name="cosynotbs"/> and CherryOS was first registered to be trademarked in the United States on October 19, 2004.<ref name="cosgjustia"/> On October 19, however, Kryeziu withheld a timetable for the CherryOS release, stating the company had been pre-emptive in releasing the earlier "soft launch" version,<ref name="cosqdenystealing"/>  and that CherryOS still had too many [[software bug]]s<ref name="cosynotbs"/>  to predict a release date.<ref name="cosqdenystealing"/>   ''[[Wired News]]'' reviewed a pre-release version around this time, reporting on October 22 that an expert had found distinguishing "watermarks" from [[PearPC]]'s source code in CherryOS.<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/>  Moreover, the pre-release version was reviewed to run at the same slow speed as PearPC,<ref name="coswwired"/> though ''Wired'' noted "they've actually done some work on it. They've written a whole graphical interface that makes [PearPC] easier to use."<ref name="cosqdenystealing"/>

In response to the article, MXS stated that the edition tested by ''Wired'' had been a "very bad...premature version" that "is not CherryOS,"<ref name="coswwired"/>  and that one of the CherryOS programmers had since been fired<ref name="coswwired"/> for directly grafting elements of PearPC code<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/> into the release.<ref name="coswwired"/> A competing emulator, PearPC been released the year before under the [[GNU General Public License]], which allows commercial products to use the software for profit under "certain conditions, such as acknowledging previous work."<ref name="cosynotbs"/> Kryeziu stated PearPC had provided the inspiration for CherryOS, but "not the work, not the architecture. With their architecture I'd never get the speed I got."<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/>  He argued that some similarities between CherryOS and PearPC were a result of "the fact that they were designed to perform similar functions,"<ref name="cosqdenystealing"/> and that "there are some functionalities that can only be done a certain way, and names are going to be similar or identical."<ref name="cosynotbs"/> ''Wired'' senior editor [[Leander Kahney]] posited that if the final CherryOS release did contain PearPC code, PearPC would be unlikely to sue Maui X-Stream for "a cut of any profits since open-source codes are protected more by an honor system than any legal basis."<ref name="cosqdenystealing"/><ref name="cosynotbs"/> By October 22, Kryeziu stated to ''Wired'' that he'd been contacted by [[Apple Computer]] for an undisclosed reason that "wasn't bad."<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/>