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Open Source Victories of 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the brief-look-back dept.

Meshach writes "Ars Technica has an interesting run-down on the major open source victories of 2008. Some, like Firefox 3, we can probably mostly agree on. Others — KDE 4 comes to mind — will be more controversial. And Mono 2? What else should be on the list?"

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  1. KDE simply isn't a factor by Rix · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    KDE is a very nice desktop environment, but that's academic. QT's restrictive licensing essentially blocks all non-GPL activity on KDE.

    QT is a very nice library, but it doesn't have anything over it's competitors to justify $4,000 per developer per year (or whatever it is now; Trolltech is too ashamed of itself to publicly list its fees). Until that changes, Gnome will necessarily be the de facto open source desktop.