The WebOS will not exist

The discussion around who is building or owns the WebOS is continuous. I meet it at work, on the street, in the blogosphere, even on my couch at home. It is the kind of discussing that we Internet junkies love to debate about, and there are so many ways to look at it, that there never will be a clear answer, until Jeremy Zawodny gave it.

Web as the "free marketplace" of services built on open standards does not need an operating system. The answer is that there will never be "the WebOS".

Even thought this is so simple, it is must be true. If there would be an WebOS, then the web would not be the web anymore, as we would loose the nature of openness and decentralization. The trend for O&D is stronger and stronger all the time, so there really is no reason to see how we would turn into a path where the web would somehow reform into a more proprietary model.

The OS's that we create, will always be windows to the web, and compete on integrating themselves as well as possible to the free marketplace.