HP releases two beta versions of open-source webOS
News Service Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the ``OpenEmbedded'' development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new devices.
HP announced that they would make webOS open source by the time fall 2012 rolls around, which is not something that the tech industry envisioned.