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WebOS goes open source

article published on 9 December, 2011

HP has said today that it will be donating its webOS software to the open source community, just 20 months after purchasing Palm and webOS for $1.2 billion. The company says it will remain active in the development and support of the operating system and hope that adding community support will certainly help the software survive for new generations of hardware. Says the press release: ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		9. December 2011 @ 15:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Some potential here, but only time will tell. I hope this bring allot of programs.
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biglo30
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_ 		9. December 2011 @ 17:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sounds great to me, this should be help the touchpad to get more apps now.
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ivymike
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_ 		9. December 2011 @ 20:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At least WebOS didn't get killed off like Unix did. HP made a smart and courageous decision.
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_ 		10. December 2011 @ 01:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by biglo30:
 Sounds great to me, this should be help the touchpad to get more apps now.
You already have android, what more could you want???

Originally posted by ivymike:
 At least WebOS didn't get killed off like Unix did. HP made a smart and courageous decision.
There really isn't anything of value here. They are just trying to make this a semi-viable OS so they can make a little bit of money on devices that use it. It isn't as good as Android and making it open source isn't going to fix that.

I support open source, and I am not trying to complain or anything...but as far as I am concerned, this is like making Windows 3.1 open source...a nice touch, but nothing of any real value.
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