[steveb]

HP needs to open source WebOS. Make it the best touchscreen interface for Linux and build a community around it.

They don't really have any other options. They have low single-digit market share. There's not much money to be made selling a proprietary OS for $5-15 a copy. There is no way they can match the massive developer communities around Google/Apple/MS.

[bergie]

Here are the open source parts of webOS: http://opensource.palm.com/3.0.2/index.html

At least some webOS games run on Maemo with this stuff... http://gitorious.org/preenv http://wiki.maemo.org/Preenv

[av500]

Nokia tried that with "the best open source community money can buy" and failed in the end, what makes you think HP will succeed? You cannot increase market share with hardware that only "community" and geeks buy...