MAMatthewPhillips·Dec 10, 2011
In HP to Contribute webOS to Open Sourcehpwebos
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 9, 22:00 | 2011-12-09 22:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-09 23:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 9, 23:00 | 2011-12-09 23:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 10, 00:00 | 2011-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-10 01:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesNot sure what HP's decision-making process was here, but sure looks like the team wasn't ready (or may not have even known if this was in play ahead of time). See comment by Dave Balmer (Senior Software Engineer, webOS Developer Relations):
https://github.com/hpwebos/webos/issues/1#issuecomment-30868...
> Meg's announcement was news to us in the webOS team as well. The HP executive team has been weighing a lot of options of late, but thanks for assuming all us in the trenches are that deeply "in the know", makes me feel warm and/or fuzzy. :)
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