Re: [News] Microsoft May be Giving Up on Win CE, Hires BSD Developers
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE
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| 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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http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/03/0146256
One might think this would hurt Linux by shutting Linux out of markets
for low-power devices.
MS won't gain a lot by blocking Linux with anything other than Windows.
Increased usage of any OS other than Windows contributes to the
attractiveness of cross-platform development and works to break the OS
monopoly.
Related:
Attracting Students to C# With FreeBSD
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| Giga Information Group analyst Rob Enderle says Microsoft is trying to
| win the hearts and minds of computer science college students who are
| currently enamored of Linux and open source.
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| Giga's Enderle maintains Microsoft chose FreeBSD because it's "viewed
| as being neutral, whereas Linux is viewed as being a competing
| platform."
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http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=2004
It could do minor damage by drawing some potential developers away from
the GPL and fragmenting the free software movement.
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