Comment by account42
You say that like it's a bad thing. If you have have an actually good design then you can convince people with those advantages instead of forcing them with a stick.
I think that's the main reason many of us use Linux actually - because we didn't like what the big stick corpos wanted to force on us.
It's not necessarily a bad thing.
But both Qt and GTK are entirely as well designed as, say, Apple's Core* frameworks for GUI development, yet neither has become the singular GUI toolkit on Linux.
One can view this as a benefit of Linux or as a disadvantage. Both are true.