HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts 141
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.'"
Re:timeframes and open source (Score:5, Funny)
Duke. Nukem. Forever.
Re:So? (Score:3, Funny)
haha (Score:4, Funny)
What does "stabilize" mean, anyway? Halting devel work on GNOME 2 because work on GNOME 3 has started?
Re:I said this before... (Score:2, Funny)
So sad to see HP go (Score:4, Funny)
Re:timeframes and open source (Score:3, Funny)
The fact the world hasn't caught on to this is simply a glitch.