The GNOME Project
Ten years of freedom
Carlos García Campos
carlosgc@gnome.org
Carlos García Campos The GNOME Project

History
1995: Windows 95!
1996: The KDE project founded by Matthias Ettrich
1997: The GNOME Project is announced by Miguel de
Icaza
Carlos García Campos The GNOME Project

Why GNOME?
GNU Network Object Model Environment
The were too many technologies missed in the free
software world compared to Windows 95
Inconsistencies among X-Window applications
KDE was very promising but it depended on (in that
moment) non-free software (Qt)
Miguel is interviewed at Microsoft where he knew ActiveX
and COM technologies.
When he went back to Mexico he and Federico Mena
Quintero started to design GNOME.
Carlos García Campos The GNOME Project