[OT] HP contributes webOS software to the open source community

Alex Samorukov ml at os2.kiev.ua
Sat Dec 10 20:29:01 CET 2011


On 12/10/2011 07:48 PM, urodelo wrote:
> words, HP will keep the control of the development.
> Do they think they can still get anything ($$) from webOS? If not, why 
> they didn't let everything in the hands of the community?
> I've never used webos devices, just red articles about Palm devs, 
> comments, etc, but I believe that an open source webos could have a 
> positive impact on openmoko community too. What do you think?
I think it could be great. We alredy have one OS based on abandoned 
sources (QTMoko) and i am using it as primary OS for OpenMoko. WebOS is 
known to be commercial and stable operating system and it probably 
should work fine on onging GTA04 effort.





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