You're missing the whole point. It doesn't matter that HP isn't going to use it for phones. GREAT. There hardware wasn't fantastic anyway. It sounds like the whole thing is going open source... that makes it ALL OF OURS. The community will finally have a fully open mobile OS that will be developed in the open in the open source spirit, unlike Android. Think of what this will mean... imagine, in the future, users no longer being locked in to running a particular OS on a particular phone on a particular carrier. They can pick their hardware, then load the open source WebOS onto it! No ads, no Carrier IQ spyware, no carrier bloatware, no lockdowns, no restrictions, and just like Bryan Lunduke, formerly of The Linux Action Show, and an N900 owner, lamented on one of his last programs, no dependency on a company (like Nokia or HP) for the OS living or dying - just like Linux!

This is incredible, amazing, wonderful, joyous news! Back when Nokia announced the switch to WP7 I suggested WebOS was the remaining viable Linux-based solution... things looked grim when Apotheker punted with the tablet so it could fail and he could try to convert the company to a services firm, but Whitman has turned things around! Nothing to see there? It's the dream of Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo/Tizen finally going to realized in WebOS! It's going to be the world's first and only non-corporate-controlled mobile OS that's also real Linux. I don't know how much more amazing you need news to be before you declare there's something to see.