It will be interesting to see if the not-so-friendly competition between GCC and Clang (where a license schism bears a large part of the responsibility for the split) can mirror the not-so-friendly competition between GNOME and KDE (where a license schism also bore a large part of the responsibility for the split).
In the GNOME/KDE case, unpleasant as it was, the competition probably ended up helping both desktop environments mature.
In the GNOME/KDE case, unpleasant as it was, the competition probably ended up helping both desktop environments mature.