This article seeks to clear up misunderstandings about the goals of PhoneGap. Our goals are wrought from our beliefs, and development philosophy. Understanding a free software project, like PhoneGap, requires more than knowledge of the implementation details. It requires understanding the individuals behind the code. Knowing the people and what motivates them inform you more about whether the technology is right for you, your goals, and the people you work with. The world is diverse and very often this comes across in our code, and the tools we use to write it. Background PhoneGap was born at Nitobi Software in the summer of 2008. Nitobi was very much a web