[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Don Wood <donlumber at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> It will be interesting to see how many takers
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>> HP gets.  It can probably knock $50 off the price
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>> of a machine by not having to bow to M$.
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>>    -- Bob
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>> 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. **shrug** 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.
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> Not clear.  Until I read this I thought webOS
> was just for HP's portable devices.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
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> Note "*webOS* is a proprietary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software>
>  mobile operating system<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system> running
> on the Linux kernel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel>, initially
> developed by Palm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.>,"
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> So yes, it appears HP might be thinking
> it can go the Apple route and make its
> OS proprietary.  But how, using a Linux
> kernel?
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>    -- Bob
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> ""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"[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS#cite_note-2>
"

That's settles that.  "In addition" is more
clear than any implication that one can
choose one or the other.

   -- Bob

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