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HP Making webOS Open Source

Posted by Soulskill on from the had-it-in-the-palm-of-their-hand dept.

Several readers sent word of HP's announcement that the company will be contributing webOS to the open source community. According to HP's press release, they will continue to be active in webOS's development, and one of their goals will be to avoid fragmentation. ENYO, the application framework for webOS, will also go open source in the near future.

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  1. open sores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    lol open sores. Look forward to lots of bugs going undiscovered for years, weak SSL keys and plenty of WONTFIX on your bug reports. Open sores ftw!

  2. Re:OSS majority by larry+bagina · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    WebOS is linux (GPL), WebKit (LGPL), and some formerly proprietary code for interfacing the two.

    This is a company dumping dead code that it doesn't have any more use for. (Much preferable to simply abandoning it.)

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