The first is webOS' Open Source license. HP has already indicated that it is leaning towards using something Apache-like, or Apache itself.

Open-source webOS is dead on arrival The more I look at what HP has had to say about webOS; the more I think the project's as dead as a doornail.

This week HP announced that their mobile operating system webOS will be contributed to the open source community. While HP assures us that they will… ...

HP has announced that it is keeping the webOS division but will submit it to the open-source community.

By releasing WebOS as open source, HP hopes to engage that developer community to rejuvenate the platform and attract new interest from device manufacturers.

HP’s Meg Whitman has finally made the fateful decision on webOS: it’s going open source. Follow along here as we track the former Palm software through its transition into a free-for-all ...

In some respects, the WebOS move is savvy. HP, which probably could have sold the OS for something, decided that WebOS could attract developers as an open source project.

SUBJECT/ webOS to be contributed to the open source community Today, we announced that HP will contribute our webOS software to the open source community and support its development going forward.

The final step of the platform going open source will come in September with the release of Open webOS 1.0. What does it mean for developers?

HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version ...

Well, there we have it. After weeks of deliberation, HP CEO Meg Whitman has just announced to all of the company's employees that HP will make webOS's underlying code available under an open ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. HP's decision to contribute webOS to the open source community represents, at the very least, a detour from the ...