I dunno.... Many specs are greatly helped by the presence of Apache members on the expert group. This isn't going to happen anymore. Apache didn't just resign from the EC, they resigned from the JCP itself and pulled all of their EG members.

Here are some other stats they should be tracking

% of schools requiring physical activity (via P.E. or recess) on a daily basis.
Nutritional composition of the average school lunch.
% of kids eating school lunches vs. bringing their own.
% of households where all parents work (either single-parent, or two-parent, two-income)

Indeed. I think it's arguably a more elegant operating system than Android or iOS. I look forward to seeing what's next, especially since my Pre is getting a bit long in the tooth.

This IDE looks similar to Ares (Palm's webOS IDE, which has been out for several months now).

They were in the phone business, but lacked a compelling product. The press release says that buying Palm gives them what they need to compete.

The press release makes clear that HP intends to continue with webOS. In the press conference, they say they're intending to go forward with Android and Windows Phone gear as well.

Expect new webOS products (not just phones, but tablets as well).

I know this won't be popular, but IBM didn't break their promise. It's actually quite dishonest to say so.

IBM's pledge contains the following terms: "[The pledge] is irrevocable except that IBM
reserves the right to terminate this patent pledge and commitment only with regard to any party
who files a lawsuit asserting patents or other intellectual property rights against Open Source
Software."

I actually think it's kind of stupid on TurboHercules' part to file an antitrust complaint against IBM and expect to still be covered by the patent pledge.

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf

...for AT&T (where other companies came in and swooped up the remnants of the failed split) and Palm and Motorola's previous split.

It's the standard Icahn strategy: split the companies to make the shareholders more short-term money, at the expense of a lasting (and ultimately more profitable) presence in the industry. The pieces will wither until they get scooped up for pennies.

I think this is a great move on Palm's part to spur developer interest in their platform. webOS is a very elegant and functional mobile platform, and I'd really like to see it succeed along with iPhone OS and Android (great platforms in their own rights).

I just hope Palm comes out with a new generation of hardware soon - although I like the hand feel and footprint of the Pre, the build quality could be better and the new Android devices are coming out with 1GHz processors.

I personally hate gift cards and calling cards, but I think this suit needs to fail for several reasons:

1) The consumers that bought the cards paid for minutes. They did not deposit money on their cards, and minutes are not legal tender currency.

2) Many gift cards don't carry expiration dates. If the governments do this, it will force card issuers to put an expiration date on the cards.

3) Success in this litigation will embolden other governments that are looking for ways to close budget shortfalls without doing the fiscally responsible thing and cutting wasteful spending. Unfortunately, the first place where most governments choose to cut spending, instead of looking for waste, is in the school districts, police and fire precincts. Threatening cuts in those services makes it easier to justify doing stupid things like this, or raising taxes.

The big thing I notice in their "competitive comparisons" is that they strive to make Java, C#, C++, and PHP as verbose as possible when they're creating what looks like it should be optimal Rev code.

I wonder if they didn't compare themselves to Ruby or Python because they couldn't contrive examples that produce huge LOC differences?

I really see no reason why Google shouldn't be allowed to do exactly what it's doing, because it's providing a search service. Sites have the ability to opt out if they want.

The computer they envision is just a glorified dumb terminal. There's nothing wrong with that, but there it is.