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It's a shame, really, that QT didn't have a GNU loved license more early. In a better timeline, we could have skipped GTK, Gnome, and have a unified desktop UI. Right now, Gnome is the darling of Red Hat and GNU, and we all lost for it.

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Thing is - if QT was under the GPL and GTK died out years ago... QT would not have any competition. I do wonder if QT may not be as good as it is today.. or if bad decisions were made along the way. Would a new graphics environment be created as a result?

This is where the multiverse would be interesting. It is not Movies like Marvel... it is to see a universe with the above. Would QT be as good as we think?

That's certainky true. Gcc needed first egcs and later llvm to kick them back to alert at the wheel.

This is 100% the truth. In an earlier draft I bemoaned Qt's licensing issues, but it didn't really fit with the rest of the article.

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