Ubuntu now working on HP Touchpad

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Duncan MacGregor <dbmacg-HLeSyJ3qPdM at public.gmane.org>

| > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_design_manufacturer>
| 
| Thank you. So HP, in this arrangement would have only modest 
| connection to the actual 'Intellectual property' associated  with the 
| device and HP would be mostly lending the value of their 'Brand' to the 
| product. 

If you accept the Wikipedia definition.

ODMs seem to do a lot of the hardware engineering, but not all.  They
don't do the software (example: Apple and Foxconn, an extreme case).

I don't know about the HP TouchPad hardware, but HP very clearly
engineered the software stack (if you include Palm as part of HP,
which you should) called WebOS.

ODMs have little or no consumer brand exposure/recognition.
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers#Original_Design_Manufacturers_.28ODMs.29>
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