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HP To Open Source WebOS

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.

First time accepted submitter pscottdv writes "This year the artists formerly known as Palm had quite a rough few months with HP dumping the hardware side of their own webOS mobile computing platform – their most recent move, having been announced just last month, is live today: open sourced webOS for all. While the actual main product which will be known as Open webOS 1.0 will not be released until September, they've already got the Enyo piece of the pie available today."

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  1. Comments in every topic now. by flimflammer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's almost interesting how off-topic the first several topics of articles have become these days. You get random google bashing, accusations on trolling, mac praising, and what have you in the first posts, in articles entirely unrelated to these comments.

    Are trolls trolling trolls trolling shills trolling?

  2. Re:Slashdot is dead by mbkennel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "When Microsoft used their Windows monopoly revenues to fund development of Internet Explorer and release it for free to try to dominate the web market, everyone here cried "antitrust!""

    It was the bundling it with Windows and concomitant development of proprietary MS only extensions that were the real problems.

    Google (so far) isn't doing the rough equivalents: they aren't restricting use of Google search to Chrome, and they aren't pushing a plethora of obviously Google-only APIs to make websites work on Chrome-only. If they did, then they'd be like Microsoft 1998.

    They're making Chrome so that they can make and sell Google Apps and be sure that there will be a way to run Google Apps which doesn't suck too much.

    Of course, Google is mini-evil to meso-evil (on the scale where Facebook is full-on-evil) on privacy and creepy data collection.