HP Cuts Staff As WebOS Transitions To Opensource

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"Hewlett-Packard has cut 275 jobs in its webOS group (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/022912-hp-cuts-staff-as-webos-256761.html), as part of its strategy to turn the operating system over to the open-source community, according to IDG News Service. HP said last year that it would stop making devices that use the operating system which was developed by Palm for phones and tablets, and later decided to release the software under the Apache License 2.0. As webOS continues the transition to open-source software, HP no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions (http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/28/2831676/hp-lays-off-roughly-270-people-from-webos-division)that it required before, the company said in a statement. 'This creates a smaller and more nimble team that is well-equipped todeliver an open source webOS (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/25/2234254/hp-to-open-source-webos) and sustain HP's commitment to the software over the long term,' it added."

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/29/1322253/hp-cuts-staff-as-webos-transitions-to-opensource