both went with Android, and I think they did the right move..
"Many" companies were rumored to be interested in buying Palm's patents. I don't know why HP didn't sell the Palm patents. I'm curious to see what the webOS open source license will have to say about the use of Palm patents.
The patents are probably most useful for defense, especially in today's fairly ridiculous IP litigation climate.
WebOS isn't worth anything. Yet another platform with little adoption. Meebo has no adoption by hardware manufactures and it is free.
The Palm patent portfolio is worth a lot, but I doubt HP is interested in selling it.