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."

Just in time!

[fahrbot-bot]

My NetBSD toaster [embeddedarm.com] was lonely. Getting him a friend will be nice.

Re:Is a 'Holy Fuck' in order?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, now that you REPEATED that I realize the significance...

Serving Hotmail with Apache on a dinky little SIDEKICK? That's fuckin AWESOME!

No wonder MS is the best company ever.

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

[MichaelSmith]

BSD is the only licence that is compatible with MS business practice.

So can I get windows and word with a BSD license?

In other news

[MichaelSmith]

• The Secret Service hires Pakistani dudes to guard the president.
• Boeing outsources all aircraft construction to Toulouse.

Hey Microsoft recruiters! Pick me!

[martin-boundary]

Sidekick [wikipedia.org]? I can totally do this! I still have some old TSR code lying around...

Re:Try try again.

[TheRaven64]

But eventually got it right.

No they didn't, they made it run on Windows.

Re:05401

[Facetious]

One can only assume a disproportionate number of bridges there.