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Flash Support Now Included

Palm just announced that it has collaborated with Adobe to integrate Palm into the webOS platform and, subsequently, the Palm Pre. http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/palm-joins-adobes-open-screen-project-pre-to-support-flash/ --CanesOL79 (talk) 07:11, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

People, just to be clear, this post from 2009 is correct. But it was never delivered to webOS 1 devices. A nice WP:Dragon removed en bloc a NPOV discussion of this whole debacle the day after HP's "relaunch" in SF of webOS 2 and 3, which was interesting timing. But editorial comments are frowned on, so I won't say any more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FeatherPluma (talk • contribs) 03:01, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

webos not open source

i dont believe webos is open source.. what license has it been released on?? how many non palm devices is it running on?? how much of OS manipulation is allowed?? it is unfair to call it open source.. there may be open areas in the OS but overall.. it isnt exactly open... someone should look into this.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Midgetman433 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

just because it is based on the linux kernal doesnt make it open source.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Midgetman433 (talk • contribs) 21:55, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In light of the article [1] , I believe WebOS is open source, released under the GPL license, and the source code is available at [2] (this link I originally added, but it has since been removed; in the interests of not edit-warring, I have not put it back). The Linux kernel is GPL version 2, so it is permitted for Palm to digitally lock down the operating system to thwart modifiability (Tivoization) on Palm devices; nevertheless, it is still considered open source. (One could, in principle, build your own device and download, compile, and run Palm's software on your device.) I believe there are some userspace aspects of webOS, probably in the Graphical User Interface, which are not open source, though now we would have to define where webOS ends: is it just the operating system (i.e., kernel), or does it include the userspace application stack including the GUI? WebOS is not that different from Android, which is marked open source. John85 (talk) 06:56, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To refer to webOS as a proprietary operating system based on Linux, (something which is not possible), makes the maintainers of the page appear to be less than qualified to maintain the page. Keep your page anyway you want it, but you need to learn what free software is and what its licenses are. Free software has court enforced legal obligations associated with its use. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.130.42 (talk) 23:15, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Programmed in" section

What's the deal with the "Programmed in" section being "C and C++" ? While the kernel and low level service code contain C and C++ code, the whole user interface of the OS as well as all the default client applications that come preinstalled on the device are written in Javascript (+HTML/CSS), somebody please add that. -- 77.10.89.225 (talk) 11:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Designed by Matias Duarte"

Misleading bit. Matias Duarte was an SVP and led design - he did not 'design webOS'. There were a lot of designers and skilled individuals involved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.24.75.54 (talk) 05:58, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Emulators

Are there any WebOS emulators besides Preenv? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.15.11 (talk) 02:43, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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