An open operating system without any sort of central authority is pointless. That's a 100% guaranteed way to kill the platform. They should skunkworks it. In

An open operating system without any sort of central authority is pointless. That's a 100% guaranteed way to kill the platform. They should skunkworks it. Instead of punting, they should round up the HP employees who built it, form a LLC, retain an ownership stake, but give the group full autonomy to continue on in whatever fashion they think they can survive with.