Guest post by If HP wants a future for struggling WebOS, it must invest in the platform, not abandon it, writes Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister. ‘It seems HP may only be truly committed to the platform if it can offload the cost of developing and maintaining it. Yet if that’s what HP hopes to achieve by opening the WebOS source, it’s bound to be disappointed.’ Instead, HP should dedicated its own developer resources and ‘release as much code as possible under an Apache, BSD, or similarly permissive license. Dual licensing under the GPL might leave HP with more opportunities to monetize the platform, but it won’t garner as much interest from hardware makers, who are what WebOS needs most.’
So, in essence, for WebOS to survive, HP has to do the thing they have made clear that they don’t want to (or can’t) do—”invest in the platform.”
Edited 2011-12-15 22:07 UTC
Actually, HP said that they would both invest time and money and they have released the source
…so according to the writer of the article WebOS is now saved
No, actually, HP has said something nice about the future of WebOS without committing to anything. No figure. No date. No objective. This is typical way of saying the same as “void();”.