<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Don Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donlumber@comcast.net">donlumber@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">**</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">In an interview published this week, Apotheker told Bloomberg News that HP intends to offer the webOS software along with Microsoft's well-known Windows operating system on all of its PCs. The company hopes to increase the adoption of webOS, both by PC users and by independent developers who create applications for PCs and mobile gadgets.</span></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">**</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It will be interesting to see how many takers</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">HP gets. It can probably knock $50 off the price</p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">of a machine by not having to bow to M$.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> -- Bob</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I’m wondering why they would go through all that work when they could offer a much more mature and robust (I’m assuming anyway) distro. Unix or Linux. *<b>shrug</b>* Unless of course they want to be like Apple and have a proprietary machine from OS to hardware to software. I understand that people will still have the option to have MS instead but I’m also wondering if you can buy it with WebOS and boot to Windows via something akin to boot camp later on.</span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></blockquote></div> <div><br></div><div>Not clear. Until I read this I thought webOS</div><div>was just for HP's portable devices.</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Note "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><b>webOS</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">proprietary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">mobile operating system</a> running on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Linux kernel</a>, initially developed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc." title="Palm, Inc." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Palm</a>,"</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">So yes, it appears HP might be thinking</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">it can go the Apple route and make its</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">OS proprietary. But how, using a Linux</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">kernel?</span></font></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div>
<div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
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