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Re:[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit

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RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> Wrote in message:
> From the «opensource the OS and we'll call it even» department:
> Title: WebOS Betrayal Costs HP $57 Million in Class Action Settlement
> Author: The Verge
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:09:15 -0400
> Link: http://www.linux.com/news/biz-os/legal/768519-webos-betrayal-costs-hp-57-million-in-class-action-settlement/
> 
> It may have been overshadowed by pricier acquisition deals in subsequent
> years, but HP's 2010 takeover of Palm remains a milestone event. It was a
> seemingly perfect combination of a highly competitive mobile operating system
> with a deep-pocketed hardware juggernaut. HP promised it would fund the
> future development of webOS and...
> 

Here's the final sentence:


... and instead dropped the project in an abrupt turnabout, to the
 chagrin of shareholders.  

Interesting that the affected party in need of indemnification
 isn't the users or people running webOS devices but rather the
 stockholders.  Doesn't that tell you in a sentence what's wrong
 with the tech world today?

This makes an interesting comparison between WWW and Usenet
 though.  Turns out the RSS feed article I posted to Usenet
 contained 95% of the content already.  But fire up a web browser
 and navigate to the web page and you'll use 100X the bandwidth to
 see:
1 sidebar twitter feed of drivel
2 one stock photo
3 a couple of banner ads
4 a bar of social media buttons
5 a link to the Verge, who I guess wrote the article.
6 a comment form that no one has used, so no dialogue, no
 community, no threaded discussion.

Useless!

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[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-02 10:55 +0000
  Re:[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 20:19 +0000
    Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-04 23:17 +0200
    Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-04 21:41 +0000
      Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-05 10:31 +0000
        Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-05 16:56 +0000
          Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-04-05 20:03 +0000
            Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-06 01:47 +0200

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