• Microsoft's Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, says for NetBSD: ``A free version of the BSD UNIX operating system developed as a result of a volunteer effort. NetBSD is highly interoperable, runs on many hardware platforms, and is nearly POSIX compliant. See also BSD UNIX, POSIX.''
• What You Need to Know Today About the New and Upgraded Features in Visual Studio .NET 2003 links to the NetBSD IPv6 Networking FAQ X-)
• Interoperability with Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory and Kerberos Services claims to show some config examples tested on NetBSD 1.4 and Solaris 2.7. The examples show extraction of a file "AD.tar.gz", but all they offer are two EXE files, Ad-unix.exe and AD.exe. Huh?!? (Thanks to logix for noticing that "unzip" will work on them!)
• LandMARC Success for Lancaster University: The Contribution of Mobile IPv6 Source Code to Microsoft Windows Server and Windows CE .NET mentions that ``Like most other academic research groups, the Lancaster team traditionally employed Unix--based operating systems--typically NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux'' (in that order - they don't seem to like Linux :-). The question arises if the listed order of operating systems gives any hints on preference of operating systems inside Microsoft, or even a source of their Mobile IPv6 code?
• gssMonger - Tool for verifying Kerberos authentication interoperability between Windows and other platforms: This one comes with actually usable sourcecode in a real .tar.gz file, and apparently Microsoft cares that software runs on NetBSD: ``Makefiles included to compile on Linux and NetBSD for Cybersafe, Heimdal, and MIT Kerberos.'' (The page is from Sept. 2004)

Before we get dumped into the same bin as M$, let me assure you that (as far as I know) NetBSD is not sponsored in any way by Microsoft. (Not that we couldn't need the money for a lot of things :-)

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