I created a small community site focused on webOS development and so far Palm has been pretty much hands off, as I expected they would be. Chuq, the Palm developer community manager, has posted in the forums a couple of times, but I believe it was primarily because I had asked people to discuss whether they had been accepted to the Mojo early access program and he was just letting people know that they were watching, in case anyone was thinking of breaking their NDA. But other than that they have been content to let us exist peacefully, promoting the webOS platform in the absence of real developer tools.
I hope this whole preDevCamp debacle boils down to a simple misunderstanding that got blown out of proportion. It would be a shame for the platform to die when it has some genuinely innovative features. More competition pushing the envelope is always good.
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I created a small community site focused on webOS development and so far Palm has been pretty much hands off, as I expected they would be. Chuq, the Palm developer community manager, has posted in the forums a couple of times, but I believe it was primarily because I had asked people to discuss whether they had been accepted to the Mojo early access program and he was just letting people know that they were watching, in case anyone was thinking of breaking their NDA. But other than that they have been content to let us exist peacefully, promoting the webOS platform in the absence of real developer tools. I hope this whole preDevCamp debacle boils down to a simple misunderstanding that got blown out of proportion. It would be a shame for the platform to die when it has some genuinely innovative features. More competition pushing the envelope is always good.