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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. Best choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From an economics perspective, this is probably the best return on investment they will get: goodwill.

    1. Re:Best choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Comparing WebOS to Symbian is rather inaccurate.

      WebOS is based on Linux and so, most of the skill sets for developing for any linux platform, will transfer relatively easily. And porting the entire platform will most likely be much less of a problem than Symbian. The biggest issue I ever saw with WebOS was simply that it was closed and restricted to HP.

  2. best of both worlds? by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So HP has decided that they want to continue using and directing webOS, but they don't want to pay for its development.

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  3. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or just write it in C++ with Qt. Get far better speed, vast portability, and no need to use a shitty language like Javascript.