HP will open webOS code by September 2012

Earlier, Hewlett-Packard executives promised to make the code of their operating system, webOS, open. The promise pleased many developers and supporters of "open" code. However, here we can recall the saying "They have been waiting for the promised three years." In the case of webOS, it will not be necessary to wait for three years, but, perhaps, we will have to wait until September of this year. This is the term called webOS developers. The company in the next appeal promised to open the code in parts. It will take about eight months to fully open the code to developers.

Perhaps in this way the company tries to attract more attention to itself, because each new open part of the code will cause a stir among a certain part of the adherents of the IT sphere. Already this month, the company released Enyo 2.0, software for developers. Actually, eight months is not such a long time. For example, Nokia "opened" Symbian to third-party developers for about a year, and no one was indignant.
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HP representatives report that the company will try to establish as close as possible interaction with third-party developers. All this, according to company management, is done in order to “put webOS on its own voyage”, i.e. make the operating system active and alive, able to stay afloat with virtually no support from HP itself.

Here is a published plan for opening a webOS to the third-party community:

January : Enyo 2.0 and Enyo source code; Apache License, Version 2.0

February : Intended project governance model; QT WebKit extensions; Javascript core; UI Enyo widgets

March : Linux standard kernel; Graphics extensions EGL; LevelDB; USB extensions

April : Ares 2.0; Enyo 2.1; Node services

July : System manager (“Luna”); System manager bus; Core applications; Enyo 2.2

August : Build release model; Open webOS Beta

September : Open webOS 1.0

Via mashable