Products based on NetBSD

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Many companies have released products based on NetBSD, such as network computers, servers, routers, embedded units, and other devices for industrial and financial use, but prefer not to advertise the fact in order to retain what they perceive as a commercial edge. We respect this position, and intend to include only those vendors who wish to make their use of NetBSD public.

NetBSD is used by Apple for a large portion of the user-space commands and tools in their Darwin project, and Darwin is the UNIX-based core used by macOS. NetBSD source tends to pay attention to issues of portability and correctness, and is virtually all BSD licenced, which avoids commercial problems with the GNU General Public Licence. At least one of the Apple developers has access to the NetBSD source tree and has fed back some useful changes.

arcapos point-of-sale terminals are known for their excellent user friendlyness and extreme robustness. The (commercial) arcapos applications (point-of-sale, infokiosks) are 100 percent made in Switzerland. NetBSD is not only used as the operating system of choice for arcapos, but also has been extended by the arcapos team to be the best open-source platform available for point-of-sale and related applications.