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Open Source and Free Software

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,811 posts) Tue Dec 13, 2011, 06:56 AM Dec 2011

I don't know what this means, or if anyone outside HP is interested in maintaining or improving webOS. It's still a strange OS to me.

If interested, here's the press release:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news

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HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source (Original Post) JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2011 OP

Two things occur to me. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2011 #1

(33,224 posts)

1. Two things occur to me.

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 10:31 AM

Dec 2011

1) it's a good validation of the open source concept.
2) Meg Whitman thinks she can get free labor.