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Umm.. what does Gnome have that KDE doesn't? To me they are equal in functionality, just that KDE isn't forcing the opinions of their developers on me and lets me choose what and how I want to do stuff. And has more features (file selection with image preview, yes, it exists!)

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better accessibility for one, which is a major reason it's the often the only option in many enterprise distributions.

In the beginning, the licence and being C instead of C++, that is why it was started in first place. KDE is older and Qt licence was different in the 1.0 days.

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