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Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the this-way-or-that-way dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Havoc Pennington, lead developer of GNOME, wants to fork GNOME 3. 'So the forces of existing userbase, the easiest-to-reach future userbase, cross-platform applications, and funded development efforts are strongly pulling GNOME 2 toward conservatism. I think GNOME 3 should be a fork for that reason.'" This has been a common practice for not only many open source projects, but proprietary systems such as Solaris for major revisions, so it's not as tumultous a change as the word "fork" may imply.

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  1. Re:This is more like a branch than a fork by Pillowthink · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think I speak for all of us when I say we should forget this linux stuff and go back to Windows 3.0