HP Is Keeping webOS, but Veer-Sizing It as Open Source Project

Hewlett-Packard is hanging on to the webOS mobile operating system, according to multiple sources, but will submit it to the open source community.

HP plans to make the source code available to software developers under an open source arrangement, which will give other hardware manufacturers the ability to work with it. While the company isn’t necessarily going to announce any layoffs, the effort will no doubt result in a smaller webOS team going forward, sources said. And whatever cuts happen, whether they get announced today or at a date in the near future, they would come on top of the 500 people already cut from the webOS division earlier this year.