Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 22:04 UTC
"We want to develop a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software." Those were the opening lines of Miguel De Icaza's email announcing the GNU Network Object Model Environment, better known as GNOME, exactly (in my timezone) ten years ago, on 15th August 1997. They have come a long way from this, to this.
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2006-01-20
I think it's very nice that Miguel's announcement was immediately followed by the first Gnome vs. KDE flame in history:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-August/msg00144.html
"IMHO this is a knee-jerk reaction to a nonexistent problem.
Best of luck doing this with GTK... it has a long ways to catch up with
Qt."
:D