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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. Awesome by catbutt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is excellent news. The best thing about WebOS is that it is built on things that people are standardizing on elsewhere. Javascript, html5 etc. WebOS even has node.js built in, which really is a start at tying all these things together -- client side web development, server side development, and "native" app development.

    This is clearly the direction things are heading, and like or hate Javascript, it's going to become the lingua franca for everything but system level or the most computationally intensive stuff. People get tired of reimplementing things they've already done in different languages. There are a lot of things converging right now, and this just might be something that pushes things over the top.

    1. Re:Awesome by characterZer0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The best thing about WebOS is that it is built on things that people are standardizing on elsewhere. Javascript

      The worst thing about WebOS is that it is built on things that suck that people are standardizing on elsewhere anyway. Javascript

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  2. Obvious question by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    contributing webOS to the open source community

    Under which license? GPL? BSD? Apache? Open source means a lot of different things.

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  3. HP making more hardware. by naranek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Meg Whitman said in an interview with The Verge that they are planning on making more tablets later. We'll see how that pans out, but it might give webOS a bit more traction.

    Also the open sourcing webOS might open the door for the Dalvik VM and running Android applications on webOS. That would make things interesting.

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