Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by siglesias on Friday December 09, 2011 @02:34PM
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And this is worth the tens of millions, if not hundreds, that they would have received for selling it?
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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by jaysonelliot on Friday December 09, 2011 @02:48PM
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You can only sell if you can find a buyer.
WebOS isn't worth anything. Yet another platform with little adoption. Meebo has no adoption by hardware manufactures and it is free.
The Palm patent portfolio is worth a lot, but I doubt HP is interested in selling it.
Selling it to who, exactly?
Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by siglesias on Friday December 09, 2011 @03:21PM
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Word on the street was Facebook (http://zd.net/psW2NP) and Amazon (http://bit.ly/uSFTVz) were interested.
Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by smacktoward on Friday December 09, 2011 @04:55PM
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Not interested enough, apparently!
both went with Android, and I think they did the right move..
Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by cpeterso on Friday December 09, 2011 @06:01PM
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"Many" companies were rumored to be interested in buying Palm's patents. I don't know why HP didn't sell the Palm patents. I'm curious to see what the webOS open source license will have to say about the use of Palm patents.