How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS 86
snydeq writes "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 dedicate 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.'"
Re:Time versus money (Score:3, Interesting)
Any good open source project has corporate backing. Look at Firefox, Linux, whatever.
Without funding you don't get the dirty work done, because nobody wants to investigate that tedious race condition when they can be implementing some new fancy feature.
Re:WebOS matters why? (Score:2, Interesting)
It matters because WebOS is better than Android.
It looked better, it ran more efficiently, it was capable of multitasking, and the kernel was less forked than the android one.