What Miguel doesn't want you to know about GNOME
on
Qt Going GPL
·
· Score: 1
Fact: Anyone who has seen the GNOME desktop is well aware that it "borrows" heavily from successful commercial designs produced by Apple and Microsoft, and Miguel de Icazza's admission of blatantly stealing many Microsoft Excel features for his own spreadsheet application is often quoted. A lesser known fact is that the GNOME Foundation has stolen code from its bitter rival KDE, as well. It is no secret that GNOME uses about 11.5 thousand lines of C++ from KDE 1.*; all you need to prove this is a copy of the complete GNOME and KDE source. What is a secret is that only about 45% of this code is properly credited to the KDE Core Team.
Why has this never been publicized in the past? A combination of two reasons. The first is that most (>99%) GNOME's users lack the technical skill to read source code. The second reason is that because of the rift between GNOME and KDE, very few people know both codebases well enough to notice, and those who do are probably the GNOME developers which stole KDE's work in the first place.
What Miguel doesn't want you to know about GNOME
on
Qt Going GPL
·
· Score: 1
Fact: Anyone who has seen the GNOME desktop is well aware that it "borrows" heavily from successful commercial designs produced by Apple and Microsoft, and Miguel de Icazza's admission of blatantly stealing many Microsoft Excel features for his own spreadsheet application is often quoted. A lesser known fact is that the GNOME Foundation has stolen code from its bitter rival KDE, as well. It is no secret that GNOME uses about 11.5 thousand lines of C++ from KDE 1.*; all you need to prove this is a copy of the complete GNOME and KDE source. What is a secret is that only about 45% of this code is properly credited to the KDE Core Team.
Why has this never been publicized in the past? A combination of two reasons. The first is that most (>99%) GNOME's users lack the technical skill to read source code. The second reason is that because of the rift between GNOME and KDE, very few people know both codebases well enough to notice, and those who do are probably the GNOME developers which stole KDE's work in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
Why has this never been publicized in the past? A combination of two reasons. The first is that most (>99%) GNOME's users lack the technical skill to read source code. The second reason is that because of the rift between GNOME and KDE, very few people know both codebases well enough to notice, and those who do are probably the GNOME developers which stole KDE's work in the first place.
Why has this never been publicized in the past? A combination of two reasons. The first is that most (>99%) GNOME's users lack the technical skill to read source code. The second reason is that because of the rift between GNOME and KDE, very few people know both codebases well enough to notice, and those who do are probably the GNOME developers which stole KDE's work in the first place.