About a year or so ago a Korean company called Tmax was claiming to have developed a new operating system that was 100% fully Windows compatible. They also claimed to have their own office suite, web browser, and more, all developed with their own special Korean engineering to keep the license proprietary.
This lead some here to justifiably worry that they were using Wine code without permission, as well as dozens of other free software projects.
At the time I called it an obvious fraud.
Anyway I check backed in on it and, no surprise, Tmax Soft has disavowed all knowledge of the project -- the website is dead, no news about it has appeared since the "launch", and although there are several quicksearches on their main website for the product they return no results.
Fortunately, with the exception of a few particularly bad tech journalists, no one seems to have been actually fooled.
-Scott Ritchie
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Scott Ritchie