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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
It's really not. The problem with both Android and webOS is that lock you into their respective userspaces since both Palm and Google decided to put together their own basically from scratch.

Nokia went the other direction and modified desktop libraries for use on a mobile device which is why it's reasonably straightforward to run regular Linux applications in Maemo and vice versa. The same is not true of either Android or webOS. For Android you need Davlik, for webOS you'd need a lot of hacking.
Well that's what I meant when I said basic apps, such as hello world , that don't use anything fancy other than the libc/glibc, that is even if these libs are there in the first place (I honestly don't know), and that are binary compatible across all Linux distros. The major obstacle here are the libraries, which I presume are Android or WebOS specific. But in general one could make an app work in both Maemo and Android/WebOS, with a looot of work.