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HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts

Posted by timothy on from the but-gnomeses-is-gentle-yesss dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:timeframes and open source by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have 3 words for you.

    Duke. Nukem. Forever.

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  2. haha by Flamerule · · Score: 3, Funny
    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?

  3. So sad to see HP go by SewersOfRivendell · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!