HP makes webOS public for open source community

[rpm]

HP webOS made public

Hewlett-Packard said Friday it is making its webOS mobile operating system available to the open source community and changed course on plans to abandon making tablets based on the platform.

 

[LazyLion]

Sweet! This is very excellent news!

 

[antowan]

Sweet! This is very excellent news!

I have to agree. This is another example of why it is so dificult to predict tech outcomes because the developments are so fluid. This is very good news.

 

[Tpex]

Could be very interesting, a real competitor to android (given a few years)

 

[zizebra]

This is the best news all week. Perhaps we may have a better tablets os not controlled by anyone like android windows and ios

 

[kissingmybbgoodbye]

More Choice is always good, keeps the competition on their toes as well

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

I wonder if WebOS will compete with Android OS. Google+ tried to with FB, and its not going well.

 

[chris2.0]

Best thing HP could have done under the circumstances...

But they've plowed almost $4B into the black hole that is WebOS, so it was either kill it or opensource it, as they couldn't get any buyers...

And that's coming from a WebOS junkie - I had 2 Palm Pre's and still have a Palm TouchPad...

So next thing that HP needs to do is code or buy an Android emulator/runtime to get access to the green robot's few hundred k worth of apps...