>I understand that HP hasn't been the company it once was but this is open source and has outside support. The thing that caught my eye was the OOP and all javascript.

Microsoft has several things which are open source, or so they claim, but then the community had some complaint about the license, as it is not the usual GPL, but something that allows them to keep some rights. The very fact that I wasn't able to understand the fine points makes me suspicious of their lawyers. Similarly, the OpenOffice was fully open source until Sun was bought by Oracle, which then led to some minor changes in the policy of the project, sufficient that the core of the team, a few dozen programmers, founded the ODF and forked the project (in its last really open incarnation) into LibreOffice.

As the old latin proverb goes, "wolf changes hair, not the character" (although in the Svetonius's book it's a fox - "vulpes pilum mutat, non mores"). I wouldn't trust a company like HP, unless the thing is exclusively GPL, without any extra stipulations, and the decisions about the project are made independently from HP.