Whenever I hear about QT licensing changes I can&#x27;t help but wonder if they had started off with a GPL based license and GTK never happened how the whole &quot;Linux on the Desktop&quot; situation would have panned out. Would open source developers eventually opted to just use QT for GUI applications? Would KDE have become the defacto standard DE across the top 10 Linux distributions? Would there have been a unified installation package allowing cross distribution installation of QT&#x2F;KDE based applications thereby facilitating commercial software vendors being more open to porting their Windows applications to Linux? I realize it&#x27;s a moot point but having spent my teen to college years heavily invested in Linux and being frustrated with the lack of standards at the time I can&#x27;t help going down this thought experiment.