New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE

jschauma writes "Many sites are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade, from Danger (acquired by Microsoft early in 2008), is going to run NetBSD as their operating system, causing Microsoft's recruiters to look for NetBSD developers."

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Re:I never thought I'd see the day.

[palegray.net]

Look, BSD licensing allows the end user to do whatever their want with the code in question, as long as they follow the attribution requirements outlined in the licensing. How can you possibly make code more free than that?

Yes, I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop, while performing maintenance on a couple of Debian servers, and poking around at a CentOS server running several variants of Linux in virtual machines. So, yeah, I enjoy using GPL products. It doesn't mean the GPL bestows more freedoms on the end user, as it certainly contains more constraints than BSD licensing.