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

Was this a good marketing move for HP?

[Futurepower(R)]

HP should have thought more clearly about this. What is the cost to HP of Timothy of Slashdot calling HP software "crappy"? It is difficult to imagine that it is less than the cost of continuing development.

GNOME is dying!

[Anonymous Coward]

HP confirms it: GNOME is dying. You don't need to be Miguel de Icaza to know GNOME's future direction. GNOME has no future because GNOME is dead, and most of its developers have left to write VB.Net code or work on KDE.

No wonder

[avdi]

I want to like GNOME2. But after years of development, it's still unbelievably slow, feature-free, buggy, and crash-prone on my Debian system. I've never seen Nautilus stay up and running without crashing for more than a few minutes. Whatever development methodology went into the GNOME rewrite, it clearly didn't work out; and I don't blame HP for cutting their losses and staying with something that's at least stable, if butt-ugly.