Malcom & RatTrap :
you both should read the GNU's General Public License to understand what 'Free Software' means
It means the freedom not only to use the software , but the freedom to choose which software works best for you
and about that 'Jihad' joke
Jihad has nothing to do with arabic, there is no shame to have KDE in your native language or it will be shame for English native speakers to use English Windows!
I tried Gnome 2 with the GTK2 toolkit (from CVS), but I wasn't attracted much to it , while at the same time, I liked KDE 3 much more.
But honestly , I found it better not to use any Desktop Environment , just set your xinitrc script to run an xterm at X Startup (That was MUCH FASTER and SMOOTHER)
But when I want something that's nice , I switch to KDE 3