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Translation is awful. Does he really mean webOS (as in Open webOS) or a "Web OS" (as in Mozilla)?
Sadly computer generated translations generally are.

There were references to Palm and HP within the linked Google transcript. So in lieu of a better translation (preferably from someone who can read the language), I would guess they're talking about Open WebOS as opposed to Mozilla Web OS.

A Reuters report clarified it's the Mozilla OS. Ah, well.
I would love to see Open webOS take off. Not because it's open source but because I really liked the platform.

Sure it had it's faults (which platform doesn't though?), but most of them are relatively minor fixes and on the whole, I just preferred webOS's way of working than its competitors (eg cards view for switching tasks).

I know it's all down to personal preference at the end of the day, but I think it's a great shame that Palm came in so late with webOS (and on such underwhelming hardware too)