On 18/10/2011 18:15, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: >> What's stopping these deprived users from using Gnome 2.X? I don't think >> there's enough developers interested in keeping the 2.X series alive - it >> would be a different matter if people were smashing out the features/patches >> for the 2.X range but as that's not happening I don't see why they don't >> stay with what works for them? > People upgrade distros. They upgrade HW. Would you advise people who > love WinXP and hate Vista(ot Win7) stay with WinXP - considering that > it has issues with new HW? > > Sergey > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list The metaphore mismatch in two points - the users of GNOME have the power to fork it (I heard even calls to fork GNOME before 3.0) so if sufficient number of developers decides to maintain GNOME 2 it may still live (probably under different name - IANAL and I'm not sure about trademark etc. details). (Whether the discontent have necessary skills is of course different matter). GNOME is also only a part of stack and I don't think GNOME 2 will stop working with, say, kernel 3.6 which would include new drivers etc. the same goes for sane/cups/mesa/... hence it will unlikely have issues with new HW. Regards
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