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Absolutely positutly FALSE.

First of all development of Ares has only recently been reinvigorated by LG devoting assets to the project which HP had taken a dump on when they pretty much gave up on WebOS.

EnyoJS is rock-star tech that rock-stars refuse to look at close enough to realize it is what facebook wants react to be - but 10 years ago, and is now the only truly platform independent JS framework.

Much work has been done by the LG designers as far as UI (I have followed their often ignored progress very closely of late) and the architecture of Enyo.

It is commonly misunderstood due to media sensationalism that LG "aquired" WebOS and it's goodies - NO NO NO - what they did is "aquired" the rights to utilize WebOS, along with the rights to own HP's nifty little office building in San Francisco (to house LG's nifty designers and devs) all under the agreement that they would pay an outrageous amount of money for these nifty items, and furthermore, that LG would slave away at WebOS/Enyo so that HP doesn't have to, all the while so that HP can benefit from the fruits since HP still owns WebOS/Enyo and friends. Phewwwwww

Just don't say things like "too bad LG is murdering WebOS and Enyo" because it makes me feel sad and angry and contributes to the propaganda machine of dis-information regarding the details of the deal between LG/HP (the details which have been hashed out in a secret agreement BTW) - this doesn't help things as the media was left with no choice but to sensationalize it even more, and without the benefit of the facts of the deals terms to at least sprinkle some truth around too.



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