HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source by w33ble on Friday December 09, 2011 @03:13PM (#3335380)

Selling it to who, exactly?

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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source by siglesias on Friday December 09, 2011 @03:21PM (#3335430)

Word on the street was Facebook (http://zd.net/psW2NP) and Amazon (http://bit.ly/uSFTVz) were interested.

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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source by smacktoward on Friday December 09, 2011 @04:55PM (#3335809)

Not interested enough, apparently!

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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source by av500 on Friday December 09, 2011 @05:14PM (#3335867)

both went with Android, and I think they did the right move..

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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source by cpeterso on Friday December 09, 2011 @06:01PM (#3336061)

"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.

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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source by idiot900 on Saturday December 10, 2011 @01:00AM (#3337078)

The patents are probably most useful for defense, especially in today's fairly ridiculous IP litigation climate.

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