Most polls in recent years have constantly shown that KDE is the preferred desktop even though
Redhat has pushed Gnome and even though Novell has started to favour Gnome after the
acquisition of Ximian.
Basically, even though companies have always preferred Gnome, as it makes the development of
unfree applications easier and cheaper due to being Lesser GPL(btw, where are these great
unfree commercial applications for gnome? - never seen anything substantial), the users and
the community have carried on preferring KDE. Several of the consumer focussed desktop
distributions have KDE as default: Kubuntu, Knoppix, PcLinuxOs, Slackware, Mepis, Xandros
(EEEPC), ....)