HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts

nauta writes "Now is official, HP will not make further investments in Gnome. They will stick with the old (and crappy) CDE. Here is the announcement This is the official statement if they are pressed for an explanation: 'The open source development of GNOME v2.0 was still on-going at the end of 2002, and did not stabilize in the timeframe that HP had earlier anticipated. This and other business and industry factors required us to re-assess our plans.'"

Comments

Re:timeframes and open source

[GreyWolf3000]

I have 3 words for you.

Duke. Nukem. Forever.

Re:So?

[stubear]

You should have checked your correction with preview too. I think you meant to say "I meant 'least' not lease". [Corrections are in bold]

haha

[Flamerule]

Quoth the marketer:

The open source development of GNOME v2.0 was still on-going at the end of 2002, and did not stabilize in the timeframe that HP had earlier anticipated.

Erm, so HP needed development on GNOME 2 to stop, by the end of 2002, so that they could use it? What the hell?

What does "stabilize" mean, anyway? Halting devel work on GNOME 2 because work on GNOME 3 has started?

Re:I said this before...

[zmotula]

Like... get a coffee?

So sad to see HP go

[SewersOfRivendell]

He did such a great job on fontconfig and metacity. Maybe he'll bring those innovations to CDE, if he doesn't decide to work on improving xfontsel and twm instead. Good luck, Havoc!

Re:timeframes and open source

[sydb]

Well, Mozilla and Netscape truly are better than IE, that's for certain!

The fact the world hasn't caught on to this is simply a glitch.