Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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"KDE will never be dominant because its based on a toolkit from a proprietary company in Norway."
Yeah, and that MS-DOS thing would never fly, heck those Microsoft guys are a loosely run gang of college dropouts and nerds from New Mexico... all they know how to do is make programs run in BASIC!
I am not a KDE user primarily (Go GNOME!) but even I know that Trolltech has released their toolkit (QT) under the GPL so referring to them as a proprietary company is a tad misleading.