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no92 wrote: How can he find the source code if you haven't posted any link or information about your OS yet? Aren't you running your own "company" for that (which suggests that your OS is proprietary)?

Take a look at page 116 of screenshots thread. There are screenshots of my OS. Since build was unstable, I had deleted the link. It is true that I am going to start my own small company but "not for profit".

I had a look over it - it looks very suspicious. Everything from line 7 to 69 (in muazzams code) has been copyied, stripped from comments and blank line and pasted into lines 9-59 (in omarrx' code). The actions are all done in the same order, operands are always set up in the same order, the exact same registers are moved to the other exact register, in the same order. Except for the stack setup, where he switched lines 13 & 15 from muazzam's code (he probably thinks that seeing that the codes don't match in the first few lines will stop people from noticing - but it doesn't stop someone using diff).

Conclusion: your OS isn't completely your OS. Code and diffs can change everything.

no92 wrote:Conclusion: your OS isn't completely your OS. Code and diffs can change everything.

Yes I admit I did take his code. I said I loved to do everything myself, but that didn't mean I did exactly that. Of course, there are small snippets here and there from other projects, the boot code is example. Though most of the others are written by me, as I am working in my own standards.

Yes I admit I did take his code.

Although not compulsory (depending upon the licence of the code), it's nice to give credit when you use someone else's code. If you leave it for others to find out they might suspect that you were trying to claim credit for yourself; especially if you make a big song and dance about wanting to write every bit of your OS.

Personally, I think that it is silly not to build on the work of others (with due credit). There seems to be little point in trying, for example, to write a C compiler just so that you can say that you wrote everything. Of course if you want to write a C compiler just for the fun of it that's different (just don't imagine that you are going to better the many man hours that have gone into gcc).