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KDE is the ultimate "lost the battle won the war" story. KDE didn't replace Windows as the most popular desktop OS, but 99% chance you're looking at this in a

by nailer 4mo ago

KDE is the ultimate "lost the battle won the war" story. KDE didn't replace Windows as the most popular desktop OS, but 99% chance you're looking at this in a browser that's derived from KDE (Konqueror begat webkit begat Blink) and it's open source because KDE's license made it that way.

MaxBarraclough 4mo ago
> and it's open source because KDE's license made it that way Chromium is open source, but Chrome isn't. Blink, WebKit, and for that matter KHTML, are available under permissive licences.