LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:43:20 -0700
Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> On 09/18/2011 05:26 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Are they paying customers, do they have support contracts ?
> 
> Does it matter?  If enough of them dislike the new version badly enough 
> to leave, the project will either die or become a toy used only by the devs.

Fine .. natural selection, market forces, call it what you will.
Evolution as with all such processes inevitably involves failures.

Alan