[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“HP spent approximately 1.2 billion dollars on the acquisition,
and the only thing they had to show for it was a fiasco of a
product launch, two failed CEOs, thousands of layoffs, Wall Street
angst and hundreds of thousands of liquidated TouchPads.“So the alternative was to try to build a future ecosystem for
the software, in the hopes that continued development under an Open
Source model might spark new products and new uses for webOS.“Everyone in the open source community ? myself included ? is
excited about the prospects of a ‘alternative’ open source mobile
operating system. We?re happy that HP is joining our extended
family.“But HP still has a lot to learn about community relations and
enticing developers to work with their code.”