HP: webOS to be fully released by September

[Posted January 25, 2012 by corbet]

HP has announced a roadmap for the open-sourcing of webOS that calls for the full code base to be released by September. The Apache 2.0 license will be used. "HP also announced it is releasing version 2.0 of webOS’s innovative developer tool, Enyo. Enyo 2.0 enables developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop web browsers, from the webOS, iOS and Android platforms to the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers – and more. The source code for Enyo is available today, giving the open source community immediate access to the acclaimed application framework for webOS."

HP: webOS to be fully released by September

Posted Jan 25, 2012 22:11 UTC (Wed) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link] (4 responses)

The roadmap lists moving WebOS to a standard Linux kernel. Now that would be interesting to see. This could mean we could easily see WebOS on devices like the Raspberry Pi, etc.....

HP: webOS to be fully released by September

Posted Jan 26, 2012 0:03 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link] (3 responses)

I was skeptical until I got a clearance touchpad, the interface is well thought out and frankly better than Android, I understand there are performance issues with the javascript based programming but I think that could be solved with some application flexibility.

My hope is that Android and WebOS will get sorta merged in that the best of both will be integrated into a future product. WebOS multitasking is hands down light years ahead of Android and hopefully the open sourcing will allow android to adopt the card interface that gives it the logical operation multitasking should have on touch based interfaces.

HP: webOS to be fully released by September

Posted Jan 26, 2012 12:06 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link] (2 responses)

"My hope is that Android and WebOS will get sorta merged in that the best of both will be integrated into a future product."

When such things happen the results generally expose the worst traits of both.

HP: webOS to be fully released by September

Posted Jan 26, 2012 15:50 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link] (1 responses)

Agreed. I'd rather have more Linux phone/tablet alternatives. I'm quite happy with Android, but I'd still like to see more "Linux-y" alternatives.

HP: webOS to be fully released by September

Posted Jan 26, 2012 17:30 UTC (Thu) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

You'd rather see something like Tizen and webOS merge. Android is too much of a different beast.