garyopa
10-09-2011, 10:39 AM
Some-How By Some-One, Android found pre-installed on HP Fire-Sale Tablets!
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It was the fire-sale of the century last month, so much so HP had to quickly dig up more to fill all the orders, well for some reason some of them have Android on them!
HP is very upset, they are rolling mad, and have started digging into matter to see how, where, by whom, and heads just might roll, if they found out the truth.
The problem, well HP had a huge fire-sale, everyone remembers it, dropping the HP Touchpad running WebOS down to $99 and it caused a world-wide buying spree!
Since then 'hackers' have been trying with little success to replace the custom HP WebOS to make it run Google Android instead.
Well now it seems some lucky customers that ordered during the 911 re-stock that HP had to quickly assemble out of parts to fill their over demand of fire-sale units, have arrived all boxed, official but with Android running native on it.
Developers approached HP about the rogue tablets, claiming that Android's open-source license requires HP to release the source code for them.
In a response to a developer that was posted to an online forum, reported by DailyTech, the director of HP's open-source program office, Phil Robb, responded to the issue of the alleged Android TouchPads. He also says that HP has begun an internal investigation about them, and that HP never authorized the distribution (but, notably, not the creation) of any version of Android on the TouchPad.
According to an internal review, Robb says, all TouchPads shipped by HP were loaded with webOS and that none of were shipped with Android, even by mistake. It's not clear how Robb knows this, but the note says he suspects "some person or persons unknown" is responsible for sending out the Android TouchPads.
Robb goes on to tell the developer that HP isn't obligated to release any code since HP never authorized the distribution of any TouchPad running Android. He does say that HP "applauds" the efforts of developers to port Android to the device, but that the company (obviously) believes webOS provides a superior experience.
So now HP is on the war-path to find out how, and of course still bragging how their webOS is better platform even tho they dropped it like a lead ballon!
NEWS SOURCE: PCmag (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394300,00.asp)
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKSID00000000000000000077/icon.jpg
It was the fire-sale of the century last month, so much so HP had to quickly dig up more to fill all the orders, well for some reason some of them have Android on them!
HP is very upset, they are rolling mad, and have started digging into matter to see how, where, by whom, and heads just might roll, if they found out the truth.
The problem, well HP had a huge fire-sale, everyone remembers it, dropping the HP Touchpad running WebOS down to $99 and it caused a world-wide buying spree!
Since then 'hackers' have been trying with little success to replace the custom HP WebOS to make it run Google Android instead.
Well now it seems some lucky customers that ordered during the 911 re-stock that HP had to quickly assemble out of parts to fill their over demand of fire-sale units, have arrived all boxed, official but with Android running native on it.
Developers approached HP about the rogue tablets, claiming that Android's open-source license requires HP to release the source code for them.
In a response to a developer that was posted to an online forum, reported by DailyTech, the director of HP's open-source program office, Phil Robb, responded to the issue of the alleged Android TouchPads. He also says that HP has begun an internal investigation about them, and that HP never authorized the distribution (but, notably, not the creation) of any version of Android on the TouchPad.
According to an internal review, Robb says, all TouchPads shipped by HP were loaded with webOS and that none of were shipped with Android, even by mistake. It's not clear how Robb knows this, but the note says he suspects "some person or persons unknown" is responsible for sending out the Android TouchPads.
Robb goes on to tell the developer that HP isn't obligated to release any code since HP never authorized the distribution of any TouchPad running Android. He does say that HP "applauds" the efforts of developers to port Android to the device, but that the company (obviously) believes webOS provides a superior experience.
So now HP is on the war-path to find out how, and of course still bragging how their webOS is better platform even tho they dropped it like a lead ballon!
NEWS SOURCE: PCmag (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394300,00.asp)