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Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

Gentu writes "The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. OSNews talked to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson. Linux in the embedded market is also discussed."

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  1. Wasabi Systems? by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was this company formed before or after the Budweiser "True" commercials?

    1. Re:Wasabi Systems? by PD · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was named after the Japanese spicy green pasty sushi yummy stuff, which was in turn named after the Budweiser commercials.

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    2. Re:Wasabi Systems? by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 1, Funny

      And thus, when we see this article the first thing that pops into my mind is Waaaaaasaaaabi.

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  2. Apologies... by SuperBanana · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...but Someone's gotta say it.

    Wasssaaaaaaabiiiiii!

    Okay, I'm done :-)

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  3. Someone likes sushi... by MsGeek · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maguro, Uni, Kohada, Tako, Sake...man, this story is making me hungry! ^_^

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  4. Re:Wasabi Systems by The+Bungi · · Score: 1, Funny
    Maguro
    Uni Kohada2010F
    Tako
    Ika

    Konishiwa!!

  5. The best about thing about Wasabi... by leoboiko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget the samurai daemon!

    Who needs a fat penguin or a yellow fish? This is the best mascot ever :)

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  6. Re:Wasabi Systems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Jesus, what is it with the names?

    I'm just waiting for some Japanese company to call themselves "Ketchup Industries" and named their projects "Burger," "Fries," and "Frankfurter," with a branch of WINE called "COKE"

  7. Re:Article text, for karma whoring purposes by inaeldi · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hate to break it to you, but you can't whore karma if you're not logged in.

  8. Re:Scalability by iangoldby · · Score: 0, Funny

    Yes, NetBSD runs quite happily on 1/4 of a cpu.

  9. Re:Interview is (-1 Flaim bait) by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1, Funny

    A great example of this is Apple, who have taken a load of BSD code, modified it, and released a big chunk back to the community.

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  10. Also on-topic... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best way I've found to make a Japanese waiter crack up is to loudly ask for a mawashi to go with your sashimi. It's a sumo wrestler's jock-strap. Not quite the same thing as wasabi, but it might make your eyes water all the same :-)