Thread: HP keeping WebOS after all, making it open-source to the community
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2011-12-10 , 13:45
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Qt was actually part of webOS (they used it for something internally) but the problem was twofold - that it wass officially off-limits for 3rd party apps, and that it was a fairly old version (4.6.x). Now, if the thing is really open source, it should be fairly trivial to upgrade that version to 4.8 and make it available to all applications (ideally, with a bit more work, through a proper QPA backend).
Yeah, you hit on 2 major points I was wondering about...

1. Is WebOS now ALL open, or is it like Maemo and Android - sorta open, that is, open except for the parts that aren't? I haven't found a straight answer yet.
2. How hard will it be to fully adapt current Qt for ease of further development?

But overall this has to be a good thing. A (relatively speaking) finished, attractive open source real mobile Linux operating system with some built-in name recognition for the general public. A few million people have seen or at least heard of WebOS. How many people on the street would know what Tizen is?
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