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Danda: Why the GNOME Should Be Abandoned

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 24, 2007

“I can see that this is a sensitive and controversial issue
within the FOSS community but I feel we have to deal with it.

“I’m going to come right out and say it, the reason for Gnome’s
existence is gone. It was conceived to serve as free desktop
because the most popular DE of the time was based on non-free
technology. Then QT became GPL, maybe this was because of Gnome, we
don’t know, but the thing to note is QT is GPL while the GTK is
LGPL…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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