I personally don't like the corporate control that the KDE League has given in to. One of the great things about the GNOME Foundation is that companies can't be members of the Foundation. Foundation membership is only open to contributors (ie: Hackers, Documentors, Translators and Artists). The board consists of members and is elected by members. Corporate interests are relegated to an advisory board where they can give advice and advocate their point of view - but have no direct control over anything - neither technical direction nor PR.

The KDE League model seems to give the member corporations all the control and power in determining the PR and advocacy direction. I hope that taking the control of the public face of KDE away from the hackers that built it won't harm the project too much in the long term.