<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><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" target="_blank">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">
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<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><div>Not clear. Until I read this I thought webOS</div><div>was just for HP's portable devices.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Note "<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-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">proprietary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">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-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">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-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Palm</a>,"</span></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">So yes, it appears HP might be thinking</span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">it can go the Apple route and make its</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">OS proprietary. But how, using a Linux</span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">kernel?</span></font></div><div><br></div><font color="#888888">
<div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div>
</font></blockquote></div>"<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; ">"Starting next year, every one of the PCs shipped by HP will include the ability to run WebOS in addition to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0645AD"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap;">3</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">]</span></a>"</sup></span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><br></sup></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">That's settles that. "In addition" is more</sup></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; ">clear than any implication that one can</sup></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;">choose one or the other.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;"> -- Bob</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;"><br>
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