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The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal
New submitter egparedes points out a post dissecting webOS and highlighting the things it did right, in the hopes that developers for other mobile operating systems will use them as inspiration. Quoting:
"webOS isn't quite dead yet. It's just being open-sourced, which, when it happens to commercial software, often turns out to be the digital equivalent of being reanimated as a walking corpse in a George Romero movie. ... Of course, it's not assured that this is the end of webOS. Maybe open-sourcing it will be the best thing that ever happened to webOS. But maybe it just means that HP doesn't care anymore, and that webOS won't receive much attention anymore. This would be unfortunate, because webOS is one of the few current mobile operating systems that are actually a joy to use. It's been hurt by HP's incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own. The least we can do now is to keep its best ideas alive, even if webOS itself won't make it."
You can't fucking steal an idea. Stop purporting this nonsensical line that the intangible can be stolen. Fuck.
Steve Jobs made a career of it.
(BTW, my CAPTCHA is leopard. What a coincidence)
I thought the point was that open source used to be cancer, and now it's zombies.
On further thought, it's probably more like Frankenstein. Taking pieces from dead projects and stitching them together before attempting to reanimate.
Steve Jobs made a career of it.
And Samsung read his book!
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Sadly, the "they did it too!" defense was struck down by moms everywhere when their children reached the age of 3.