On 04.05.2017 11:56, KatolaZ wrote:

> Remember that GNOME itself was born as a tentative countermeasure to KDE,
> which was using the (then non-free) QT libraries, hence forcing users
> to abide to a non-free license from Trolltech...

... and because of the resource consumption, excessive build times and
bad binary compatibility of C++ in general, etc, etc.

Nowadays, c++ became much better, build machines got faster, but the
trolls really manage to make it even much worse than it ever was.
Over 1GB source tree - several hours of build times, until it breaks
somewhere in the middle again ...


--mtx