GNOMEs future not so bad

First of all he critized GNOME for not having a clear vision for GNOME 3. Well this is true, but that is mostly due to not having any clear ideas for something that would require a GNOME 3. GNOME 2 came about as a result of shortcomings in GTK+ at the time, causing the GTK+ maintainers having to break API compatability in order to improve for instance the handling various writing languages and fonts.

This article puts to rest a lot of the speculation raised by the recent OSNews article. GNOMEs future looks good, depending on what you are looking for.