HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news

by mikecane • 15 years ago

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firefoxman1• 15 years ago

This made my day!

hswolff• 15 years ago

This is a masterful move after the previous mis-steps. Bravo HP!

If only I could be a fly on the wall for those discussions of what to do with webOS...

Vaanir• 15 years ago

It really is going to be interesting to see how far webOS goes with this approach. I'm glad they did this, webOS is a great OS and is really nice to use on tablets.

sjs• 15 years ago

"under an open source license" is vague. I hope more details emerge soon. If it's a liberal license this could be very interesting.

Without a group leading development the project may languish so ideally a competent group, with a vision, decides to run with webOS.

ConstantineXVI2• 15 years ago

> "HP will be an active participant and investor in the project"

"competent" is up for debate, but they're planning on still running the show.

freehunter11• 15 years ago

They did mention they wanted to control the development of the system to avoid fragmentation, so the license may be more restrictive than Android. Full open-source but cannot sell devices with wildly custom builds without HP's approval seems to be okay with me. As long as they leave a clause for being able to legally share your custom homebrew ROMs, they can put as many restrictions on hardware manufacturers as they like.

j_col5• 15 years ago

I really hope they manage to do that, and avoid the fragmentation that Android experienced, especially with multiple app stores and no centralised over-the-air update mechanism.

scotu• 15 years ago

I think there's no way to adhere to open source definition and restrict that. And it is a good thing

rbanffy5• 15 years ago

> the license may be more restrictive than Android.

Not necessarily. The WebOS name is trademarked and they can just prohibit its use unless the software adheres to a certain quality goal.

dave1010uk• 15 years ago

It will be interesting to see if webOS's governance is as open as its code. Will its direction and roadmap be as open as its source?

salem2• 15 years ago

Agreed, open source does not mean free, or unencumbered. Symbian went 'open source' too.

wcchandler• 15 years ago

They'll probably rely on whomever adopts it -- which will probably (and hopefully) be Apache Foundation. Once that happens, then the conditions of the licensing can be decided by people who have a better understanding of what is going on. Ideally the community will want a GPL or BSD, but HP will probably want a GPLv3, LGPL or Apache.

yoda_sl• 15 years ago

Interesting solution to their problem with webOS. I am not convinced that open sourcing it without any HP hardware to officially run it or any announcement of partners that will produce compatible hardware will allow webOS to take off. At least this is a potential credible alternative to Android open source model... if some HW folks decide to go with it.

[copied from my previous comment on the 'precentral' news]

dlikhten• 15 years ago

Meh... No reason android devices can't be ported to webos.

MatthewPhillips2• 15 years ago

1 huge reason: proprietary drivers.

mchanson• 15 years ago

I'm really interested to see if this means WebOS would compete with Android in a meaningful way. Google puts a lot of work into outreach/support/evangelism to handset makers and I think also carriers. Android's big because of being open, but also because of all of the efforts Google is making. HP is not really known for being reliable lately in their strategic direction... My prediction (for all that is worth) is that this doesn't change the landscape very much.

Totally interesting. Can't wait to see what happens.

jianshen• 15 years ago

Great point. Most of the popular open source projects in the JS space (jquery or node.js for instance) have a person that serves as the voice of the projects. I think if someone from the webOS dev team stepped up to take that role, I'd be a lot more confident in where the platform is headed.

untog2• 15 years ago

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we end up with people making a compatibility layer between the two somehow. Without a major backer, WebOS won't ever be a big deal. But if you could run Android apps on the WebOS UI...

angli• 15 years ago

That's possible, but I think that the more likely scenario is the opposite - WebOS apps on Android. With a competent Webkit environment on the phone and Enyo open sourced, it seems possible, simple even.

peterb2• 15 years ago

Why wouldn't Google embrace WebOS? Their business is advertising and this will be as good a platform as any.

k-mcgrady• 15 years ago

But they have their own platform which they exercise more control over. They would have to work with individual vendors to get full Google Apps support natively on WebOS devices. Why would they embrace that and do extra work when they can continue to push their own effort?

thehodge• 15 years ago

Was half expecting them to donate it to the apache foundation.. seems to be the in thing to do right now

peterarmstrong• 15 years ago

The Apache foundation is turning out to be where large companies send their projects that they acquired through acquisition and never really loved or understood to die. It's kind of the old folks home of the software industry.

bad_user• 15 years ago

Only if Oracle donated Java or MySQL to Apache, maybe with a change of license like they did for OpenOffice - now that would be something.

nl2• 15 years ago

You mean like Hadoop and Thrift and Solr and Cassandra?

laconian• 15 years ago

How cool is this? I bet Touchpad buyers feel even better about that firesale buy. If XBMC is any indication, nothing can reanimate old hardware like dedicated OSS nerds.

megaduck• 15 years ago

This is fantastic news. WebOS has always been full of great ideas, but held back by shaky underpinnings. It's like the inverse of most open-source projects. Great UI, not-so-hot implementation.

There's a lot of folks (myself included) that would have been happy to jump in and assist, but couldn't due to the closed-source nature of the platform.

The real prize, however, is Enyo. It's a great Javascript framework, and works in virtually any webkit-based browser. The biggest problem was the licensing terms: You could only use it on WebOS phones. Now that barrier's being removed.

I'm really looking forward to this. Can't wait to dive into the code. :)

untog2• 15 years ago

Seconding the excitement about Enyo. This could/should be absolutely huge. Speaks to the level of disorganisation in HP that the blog they link to has no mention of the open sourcing, though. Woops.

Stratoscope• 15 years ago

There's a blog post on it now. I don't know how much disorganization that speaks to: Maybe the PR person jumped the gun by a few minutes, maybe the blogger was a few minutes late, or maybe they posted simultaneously and then discovered that their blogging platform has a longer cache than the PR wire. :-)

I will check out Enyo, thanks (and megaduck too) for the tip!

smacktoward3• 15 years ago

They do mention it in their press release: "HP also will contribute ENYO, the application framework for webOS, to the community in the near future along with a plan for the remaining components of the user space."

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?m...

aaront• 15 years ago

Enyo is most definitely the best mobile development I've ever done. Clean & simple implementation, and I can use the Chrome dev tools to debug.

beatle• 15 years ago

Fantastic news.

WebOS > Android

notauser• 15 years ago

If they had done this before Nokia bought in to Windows Phone 7 then we might actually have seen a great user interface on Nokia's excellent hardware.

Maybe RIM could adopt it instead? They could really use a better UI, plus a platform that actually scales well to tablets. Plus they have a large enough install base that once they get rid of their disastrous programming environment developers might actually start writing good apps for their phones.

TomOfTTB3• 15 years ago

While I agree I really don't see hardware manufacturers adopting webOS. Since webOS is now Open Source it would be much easier for them to adopt the innovations of webOS (particularly interface wise) and use it as a shell on top of Android. That way you get the Android marketplace and the advantages of webOS.

I guess HP could enforce the patents to keep those innovations locked to webOS but it's kind of hard to do that AND promote webOS as an open solution for people to use.

shmerl• 15 years ago

If you are interested in assisting an open source mobile project, why not to give a hand to Mer and Nemo Mobile?

http://merproject.org/

http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo

bergie• 15 years ago

I'd love to see Enyo apps on Mer. Probably something we also need to think about in the context of http://apps.formeego.org

darklajid• 15 years ago

Honest answer, subjective of course:

- Because WebOS has more real devices out there, and for cheap. - Development for the platform is ~solved~ and nice (including nice emulator images) - I prefer the card view / just type experience to what I know from MeeGo []

: I was a huge Maemo fanboy in the past, got a couple of their shirts and went to their summits. Still own a N810, but it's mostly a clunky music player now. For me Maemo & MeeGo died by now, WebOS is in a state between worlds and might survive (after this announcement) with some support.

warthogkernel• 15 years ago

megaduck, you can already dive into parts (well the non-compiled bits) by taking the webOS doctor apart (it's just a jar).

The WebOS Internals team is happy to accept any patches which are then made available to users with Preware.

So you don't have to wait to get started and we would love more hackers joining the effort. We are also usually available on #wosi-dev on IRC.

dlevine• 15 years ago

I guess that I'm kind of worried this won't be a good thing (at least for Web OS). Without any concrete plans for upcoming Web OS devices, it is unclear whether HP will actually continue to develop the OS. There aren't all that many devices that can run the current version of Web OS - just the Touchpad and Pre3 AFAIK, and the Pre3 was barely released). It doesn't appear that these are being currently produced or sold. I guess it is possible that Web OS will be ported to Android devices, but the lack of an official development platform is definitely a roadblock.

I'm not sure whether Web OS can survive without both current devices and active development by HP. I'm fairly certain that Open Source developers alone won't be able to advance the platform to the next level, although I'm sure that there is a lot that they can contribute.

With that said, I'm sure there is a lot of interesting technology that can be mined out of Web OS and integrated into other devices.

siglesias3• 15 years ago

Dumb question, but what's in it for HP?

gms2• 15 years ago

PR. They haven't got a clue about what do with webOS, so instead of announcing its shutdown, they 'donate' it to open source.

siglesias3• 15 years ago

And this is worth the tens of millions, if not hundreds, that they would have received for selling it?

jnbiche2• 15 years ago

Good PR, yes, but it may also be a good strategic move for HP, particularly if this is a sign of things to come. HP is fighting hard to remain relevant, and a vibrant competitor to iOS and Android would push them back into relevancy. Everything tech seems to be heading toward mobile, and if HP can establish a firm foothold there, they'll be a stronger company for it.

Now, I'm not saying this will happen, but at least it's possible now. webOS wasn't going to do anything for anyone sitting in a corner. Personally, I think a lot of its success depends on if/how they manage to set up a competitive webOS app store, facilitate at least one device that can run it, and letting webOS run as openly as possible on that device. Open source advocates would flock to buy and develop for a device running on a truly open OS with an open development model.

I'm also curious about a compatibility layer for Android. Dalvik has already been ported to maemo/meego, although it's closed-source. I'm relatively sure someone will now port Dalvik to webOS. I think a webOS with a vibrant, open-source community, able to run Android apps, could pose a significant challenge to portions of the Android market (to iOS to a lesser extent).

mrhlee• 15 years ago

Just a guess, but this lets HP achieve the two things they've wanted in trying to find a buyer: allow webOS to live on in new hardware made by other company, and still allow HP to use webOS in their new printers. Although this is just a rumor, I don't doubt they'll come out with webOS printers since they've kept announcing it ever since Mark Hurd was CEO when Palm was purchased. Not sure how webOS printer sales would translate to the bottom line for HP, but I'm curious to see and use such a printer (I currently use the Pre 2 as my mobile phone).

gms2• 15 years ago

'Contribute to open source'? More like 'dump onto open source'.

notatoad• 15 years ago

whatever. at this point, open sourcing it is probably the best possible outcome anybody could have hoped for. be happy they didn't just say "we're going to lock it in a safe and nobody will ever see it again"

barredo• 15 years ago

I'm buying my 150€ dev touchpad right now. I was hoping for something like this before committing to the platform.

zer0her0• 15 years ago

I thought they sold out of the touchpads?

jpxxx2• 15 years ago

Honest question: to what end is this happening? They receive no money from a sale of the project, they still have to commit engineering resources, they lose some level of control over its development and its future,and how is it going to be placed into someone else's aboveboard commercial mobile product if there aren't any guarantees against patent attacks?

What is the upside?

jdthomas2• 15 years ago

Upside: They look slightly less foolish?

tewolde2• 15 years ago

This is a platform play. Think of it like a casino, HP is the house. It sits in the middle, makes the rules and pockets the mindshare, influence...and maybe some money.

Samsung, HTC have been desperate for an alternative to android since the Motorola purchase by Google. If HP does this right, I have little doubt we will see future webOS devices.

TomOfTTB3• 15 years ago

If these companies are "desperate for an alternative" why didn't they embrace webOS before? Or why aren't they pushing Windows Mobile?

Or, if they want open, why not just fork Android like Amazon and Barnes and Noble? Are you seriously suggesting Barnes and Noble has more technical resources than HTC and Samsung?

masklinn6• 15 years ago

Samsung has bada already, I don't think they've been desperate for much. HTC, yes. I can see Acer, LG and Sony in that latter category as well.

robbrown451• 15 years ago

I think HP would benefit if the mobile/tablet landscape was not so dominated and controlled by two of their competitors

steele• 15 years ago

The fire sale puts them in a decent position against Android.

jnbiche2• 15 years ago

And the upside of Google doing the same to Android was?

mikecane3• 15 years ago

Google gets Google Search on devices. And HP will get ... oops. A piece is missing here.

turingbook• 15 years ago

Why not merging with Tizen to be a dominant platform？

masklinn6• 15 years ago

How do you merge two completely and utterly unrelated projects exactly? And why would they merge WebOS into a project which does not exist and is the latest in a long line of abject failures to yield any result?

scriptproof• 15 years ago

Tizen = Linux + HTML 5. WebOs = Linux + ENYO or OpenGL. They are not so unrelated.

yalogin• 15 years ago

Isn't it a little too late now? WebOS is way behind in terms of functionality compared to Android and so even someone picks it up they need to spend considerable time and resources to bring it up to par to compete with it. It has to be some company that does not mind waiting and spending the resources. I don't see any one in that position right now. Unless this is purely a move to generate excitement in the developer community so that HP can at least make a meaningful effort to push it.

jasongullickson• 15 years ago

This may be true assuming that targeting those platforms is desirable.

Now if you're in the market to do something new...

sthulbourn• 15 years ago

Android may be further ahead in features, but there's a lot of people who got a TouchPad in HP's firesale who would want extra functionality and now they can add it. I hope a OpenOS project starts soon rather than loads of people rushing to add small bits.

hugoroy4• 15 years ago

too late? Why? The iPad is only at version 2, and Android tablets are having a hard time to take off (while the HP TouchPad has been selling very well apparently). Honestly, I am using one, and I have an Android phone (Nexus S) I don't think it's that far behind (and there are other good features I don't have on Android).

Disclaimer: I'm right now an intern at HP, but I'm first a Free Software hacktivist and user.

angryasian• 15 years ago

hp is selling well because they are selling $500 hardware at $100, which a lot of people are putting android on.

joelhaasnoot• 15 years ago

Some of the contact stuff they did in WebOS with Synergy is actually very much ahead of it's time. Android had now caught up to it a bit with ICS and their "People" card. There's also a fairly large "homebrew" community for WebOS with lots of hacks, etc.

freehunter11• 15 years ago

It was ahead of its time. Windows Phone picked up where WebOS left off on that measure, and did it quite well. They also grabbed the cards feature and put it to use (though without real-time multitasking).

All the features that should have made WebOS the best-selling platform ever have now been incorporated into the competing products. The fact that Windows Phone is basically WebOS with the homebrew taken out but is still lagging far behind in sales goes a long way towards showing that features matter much less than advertising and hype.

smacktoward3• 15 years ago

> Android had now caught up to it a bit with ICS and their "People" card

Not surprising, seeing as how Google hired the guy who designed the webOS UI, Matias Duarte, to lead Android UI development starting with ICS...

rbanffy5• 15 years ago

OK... Now, who'll make WebOS devices?

mark-r• 15 years ago

The devices exist already, except they're all running Android. It shouldn't take more than a few tweaks to get WebOS running instead. Any HW manufacturer could try it to test the waters, and if they're first it would be good PR.

rbanffy5• 15 years ago

And support two different software stacks?

I don't think many will.

j_col5• 15 years ago

First one who does will get my money when I'm looking for an upgrade on my Pre3 and Touchpad next year, and I'm not alone ;-)

zwieback• 15 years ago

As an HP employee I have something to smile about today.

absintheslink• 15 years ago

Do you remember how?

hkmurakami• 15 years ago

As a former HP intern and someone who laments the company's demise, I too have something to smile about today.

laughingfather• 15 years ago

As father of 2 idiots, i will laugh for a week.

dextorious• 15 years ago

First the laugh at you.

Then they copy you.

Then they announce they have an X (your product's name) killer.

Then nobody cares.

Then they open source their product.

gravitronic2• 15 years ago

I own a Touchpad ($150 sale) and have dabbled in Android development. What I find amazing about WebOS is that the native development platform (not the Enyo javascript/html side) is SDL&OpenGL. This makes porting/developing on any desktop OS very simple and the learning friction very low.

malkia2• 15 years ago

Also I've heard people install native gcc. On my end I've got luajit running there (cross-compiled on my OSX).

gravitronic2• 15 years ago

oh that is awesome! I want to set it up with pygame and a keyboard as a quick "would this make a fun tablet game" prototyper.

mikecane3• 15 years ago

It's probably very selfish of me, but I hope for others to also want webOS on one of Samsung's tablets and that a method will be devised to replace Android on a 7 Plus, 7.7, or 8.9 (or all three!). I really like Samsung's hardware and webOS would be killer on it.

agentgt• 15 years ago

Anybody have a guide on how one might make custom phone using webos? I asked just a while ago on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8450744/resources-on-how-...

(I just know my karma is going to get trashed for cross posting)

runjake2• 15 years ago

Your best bet would be to find an existing (probably Qualcomm MSM) ARM-based Android phone with supported hardware drivers and an unlocked bootloader that you really like, and port WebOS to that. Porting WebOS to such devices has been accomplished to small extents in the past by hackers on xda-developers.com.

Here's one such example reported on today: http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/9/2624350/webos-hacked-toget...

As you likely don't have the fab facilities, any phone you'd build from off the shelf parts would resemble the lunchbox-sized cell phones of the 80s.

I built one several years back with a Gumstix board and a GSM module from (I believe) Sparkfun.com. Though it only did SMS and Data, no voice (wasn't interested).

jlarocco• 15 years ago

Do they link to the project or the code anywhere?

All I could find was http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html and it's just the GPLed code they were legally required to release anyway.

Anybody know if there's a project page or anything?

freehunter11• 15 years ago

They're still working on the license for the code, so it might take a few weeks to get it all out.

veyron• 15 years ago

Does that mean we will see webos on iPad at one point?

runjake2• 15 years ago

I suspect that the Enyo framework will be the prime survivor out of this outcome, as it could easily be ported to Android, and perhaps iOS (somewhat).

ramn• 15 years ago

Awesome news and well done HP. Atleast there will be someone to take it and build it as an alternative to the android. I believe all manufactures should give an option to install WebOs on their devices if the consumer chooses to.

jvandenbroeck• 15 years ago

Great! I can really see webOs taking over Android on the tablet market imo. it's a much better experience than Android.

robterrell2• 15 years ago

HTC in particular seems to be casting about for a way to stand out in a sea of Android handsets. I wonder if they'll be tempted? But getting webOS up to the level of ICS or iOS 5.0 is going to be a ton of work.

nextparadigms• 15 years ago

I'd rather see them push WebOS than WP7, which hasn't proven very successful for them anyway.

zdw• 15 years ago

Hopefully BeOS will come along with it.

ConstantineXVI2• 15 years ago

Nope, this Palm (fka PalmOne) that HP bought doesn't own any of the original PalmOS or BeOS assets; they spun them off as PalmSource in '03 (at the same time they bought Handspring IIRC), who got bought by Access a few years ago.

jmount• 15 years ago

Sounds like just a ploy to get discount/bribe from Microsoft to switch to Win8.

cpeterso2• 15 years ago

HP had committed to producing Windows 8 tablets, even before they killed their webOS tablets:

http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/28/hp-windows-8-tablets-arriving-...

forgotAgain2• 15 years ago

Mentioned in followup interviews to this announcement was that they would be doing Windows tablets in 2012 and new webOS hardware in 2013. Perhaps new webOS tablets would be their fallback if the market rejects Win8 on a tablet.

fa1321• 15 years ago

maybe hp is planning for a centralized app store. If the new platform flourishes as they envision, then it surely means a lot of money for hp.

forgotAgain2• 15 years ago

Sorry folks but this is just HP's way of trying to make a dignified end to an embarrassing episode. The world is littered with operating systems. Without a committed hardware manufacturer there is no economic model that works for webOS developers.

amartya916• 15 years ago

I'd tend to agree with you. While this is great for the hacker community, the lack of hardware is crippling. I don't see major manufacturers like Acer, HTC, Samsung picking up on this, especially since Windows Phone 7 is already a credible alternative to Android. Better developer tools, excellent UI and Microsoft's marketing muscle.

The only hope is that if Nokia becomes successful (wildly) with the Win 7 platform and Motorola does the same with Android, then as a product differentiating factor, manufacturers like HTC may pick up WebOS. Now, that's a really long shot.

kermitthehermit2• 15 years ago

I would say the former CEO of HP was some kind of trojan horse meant to kill the company.

I am pretty glad that the new CEO, along with all those involved, decided to do this. People love the platform, devs like, other companies couldn't wait to get their hands on it and a lot of users have said the platform has very nice UI.

So, I'm not ready to say it's just something to "save face". It's their chance to open source something, build a healthy ecosystem and provide a 100% open source alternative for Android.

ricardobeat3• 15 years ago

Would be great if all the chinese tablets stopped using outdated versions of Android and adopted WebOS. Cheap decent tablets for one-off projects!

av5003• 15 years ago

Why would they do that and why would they run a more recent version of WebOS? The Chinese will put the (free) OS with the most apps available, WebOS has a long way to go to get there... Not even mentioning that all the major silicon vendors are shipping with Android BSPs these days..

ricardobeat3• 15 years ago

It's just an idea. Not depending on Google's release schedule for updates, better performance (maybe), easier development, customization. The versions they ship with (1.6, 2.1) leave out thousands of apps anyway.

Android is not free. Maybe some makers are not paying for licenses yet (like the big players are), but they are on target: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Huawei-in-Line-for-Microsoft-... (just hope they don't come after WebOS...)

shimon_e• 15 years ago

What is quiet likely is a Chinese internet business will adopt/fork webos to complete in the Chinese market against android. Which is held back by the Google vs China war.

blntechie• 15 years ago

Welcome the decision. But a honest question - has there been any predecessors for a software succeeding after being open sourced from closed? I can think of Firefox but nothing else.

erydo• 15 years ago

Blender comes to mind. It was opensourced (ransomware) around 2001 IIRC, and it's still a quite healthy project. I'm sure there are other good examples. You might also count open source games relying on id's engines.

buu700• 15 years ago

StarOffice/OpenOffice is a major example as well. Java, WebKit, Reddit, Tornado, Cassandra, and probably tons of other projects began as closed source releases/deployments.

mtigas• 15 years ago

Not sure what HP's decision-making process was here, but sure looks like the team wasn't ready (or may not have even known if this was in play ahead of time). See comment by Dave Balmer (Senior Software Engineer, webOS Developer Relations):

https://github.com/hpwebos/webos/issues/1#issuecomment-30868...

> Meg's announcement was news to us in the webOS team as well. The HP executive team has been weighing a lot of options of late, but thanks for assuming all us in the trenches are that deeply "in the know", makes me feel warm and/or fuzzy. :)

snowwrestler• 15 years ago

Looks like I will be holding onto these Touchpads! Very exciting news.

ricardobeat3• 15 years ago

Will WebOS be able to step aside from the patent wars?

If Microsoft and others come after licensing deals like they did for Android that could put nails back in WebOS's coffin.

soapdog• 15 years ago

Can't wait for FOSS ENYO!!!! =)

MatthewPhillips2• 15 years ago

https://github.com/hpwebos/webos/issues

xxiao• 15 years ago

i think it's all about apps these days, probably too late for the game?

robterrell2• 15 years ago

What about the patents? Scoble said they had patents on webOS. The press release mentions nothing about it.

hastur• 15 years ago

Wow, someone at HP has balls. Very impressive.

suprgeek• 15 years ago

The race is now officially on to see who can become the "CynogenMod" for webOS :). I cannot wait for a Port of this on some of my Currently Android Only Devices (Nexus One and ASUS Xformer).

I will now spend the rest of the day dreaming about dual booting my Tablet into WebOS and Android and all the funky apps that can come with that prospect :)

jonutzz• 15 years ago

Webos is actually pretty cool. I hope this helps breathe some life into it

jsz0• 15 years ago

I wonder if we'll reach the point where some SmartPhone/tablet makers start flirting with officially supporting multiple operating systems on the same device either to end users or carriers. I can think of a couple reasons why the carriers might like this approach. I'm sure enterprise IT departments would prefer to have more control to lock down and customize devices. Even if they don't want to switch platforms at the moment it's not very practical to root and install custom ROMs on everyone's device.

jdavid2• 15 years ago

What is HP going to do with Synergy? Can they open source that too? Or will they allow you to take your account to a different platform?

jdavid2• 15 years ago

1st WebOS is better than Chrome OS. 2ndly, WebOS is not just for phone's and tablets. Think TV, Netbooks, Printers, etc....

WebOS is about the cloud, not the devices. It's about sharing data as a user between many cheap devices.

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