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New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE

Posted by kdawson on from the daemon-in-the-details dept.

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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  1. I never thought I'd see the day. by jadedoto · · Score: 0, Troll

    Heaven forbid we use the GPL. Let's go for the BSD license! It's worse!

    Go Microsoft, you're finally growing up!

  2. Go NetBSD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck Android in the ass! The Android developers are so stupid that they made the SDK x86 only. Fuck them.

  3. vFailzor5?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FreeBSD had long [amazingkreskin.3om] to the original achieve any of the

  4. Y9OU FAIL IT!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    short of ax miracle Is al5o a miserable

  5. Borland by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not like you would be going in to code the next Microsoft Useless Widget 2.0.

    Right. You'll just be porting Microsoft Useless Widget from Windows CE to NetBSD.

    Or, M$ is hoping enough NetBSD developers, or potential developers, are naive or weak enough to turn quisling. NetBSD is small enough that it is comparable in size to small companies, and taking out enough developers to sink the project is a realistic goal.

    It happened to Borland and others. Of the FOSS distros, NetBSD the lowest hanging fruit for such a tactic. Larger distros require other tactics.

    Even if the offer is legit, which it probably, isn't, just wasting invaluable developer resources porting Microsoft Useless Widget from Windows CE to NetBSD is a human resources denial of service attack taking developer time away from something useful.

    --
    Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
  6. Re:Is a 'Holy Fuck' in order? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mac OS X is not too bad, not great, but nothing beats KDE 3.5 for ease of use and development.

    Ah so you're the all knowing GUI god?

    Why do you even pretend to know what's "best"? What does that mean? For who? I would guess you mean "For the way I'm working nothing beats...". I must say that the few times I've been forced to use KDE it's been pain all over, because you know nothing beats windowmaker...

  7. NetBSD by udippel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't it ... ? Wasn't it ... ? Wasn't it already ... ?
    Oh no, nevermind!