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	javispedro	2015-09-17 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by smoku

No. Not open sourcing.

Dumping tons of dirt cheap TouchPad tablets on the market (fire-sale style) helped WebOS. People were hacking it like crazy even before releasing WebOS free. :-)

I was monitoring webOS before and after the Touchpad firesale (I got one there), and I can say that the firesale did not help much.

An example is that the android-on-the-touchpad IRC channel was significantly more populated than the usual webOS channels.

Unsurprisingly, people who've paid $100 are less committed than people who paid +$300

In any case, open source webOS has certainly worked to keep it alive. can run it on my Jolla of all places

, and in fact would probably be my first option of a truly free mobile OS.

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