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HP Donates To WebOS's Major Hombrewing Group

Posted by timothy on from the doing-good-is-doing-well dept.

Kilrah_il writes "WebOS Internals Group is the central repository for all the homebrewing done on the WebOS platform, including apps, patches and kernels. Recently it became clear that server infrastructure would fall behind future progress in the WebOS world. 'So they asked HP's Phil McKinney, who has arranged to donate an HP Proliant DL385 2u server with 32 gigs of RAM and 8 terabytes of disk space... Notably, this is a straight-up donation, no strings attached — so WebOS Internals will remain how they always have: completely independent from the company whose OS they hack on.'"

3 of 77 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Imagine Apple doing this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    We were going to; but the Xserve was discontinued, and Legal wouldn't sign off on our plan to load the cooling fans with anthrax spores to show the jailbreakers just how much we appreciate their work...

    xoxo Steve

  2. Ebeneezer Goode by Tim+the+Gecko · · Score: 2, Funny

    (off topic) With "Hombrewing" and "J. C. Penny" [sic] on the front page, it seems that today's Slashdot is definitely not brought to you by the letter "E".

    Anyway... Kudos to HP!

  3. Re:So they condemned them w/ a rebranded Compaq? by Kilrah_il · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's like our cable guy, my wife only calls him when thing go wrong... and I'm at work...

    --
    Whenever in an argument, remember this.