It seems HP has shipped some TouchPads with Android pre-installed. An internal investigation into this is ongoing.

When HP discontinued the TouchPad this summer and started selling the tablet at rock-bottom prices, a few customers got more than they bargained for. Some people who bought their $99 TouchPads apparently received a unit running not the webOS software they were expecting, but Google Android. Now HP appears to want to know where this mutant strain of Android TouchPads came from.

 Developers approached HP about the rogue tablets, claiming that Android’s open-source license requires HP to release the source code for them. In a response to a developer that was posted to an online forum, reported by DailyTech, the director of HP’s open-source program office, Phil Robb, responded to the issue of the alleged Android TouchPads. He also says that HP has begun an internal investigation about them, and that HP never authorized the distribution (but, notably, not the creation) of any version of Android on the TouchPad.

It seems HP has shipped some TouchPads with Android pre-installed. An internal investigation into this is ongoing. When HP discontinued the TouchPad this summer and started selling the tablet at rock-bottom prices, a few customers got more than they bargained for. Some people who bought their $99 TouchPads apparently received a unit running not the ...