Oups, how many members of the KDE Core Team aren't employed by companies in the league ?

That's another question; at KDE even "employed" programmers have to discuss their ideas with everybody (including interested hackers that do not really participate in the project), while in the GNOME foundation, the Directors can make the decicions as it pleases them (or their employers?). If it happens that nearly every Director has a job at a member-concern, they can (and as nobody can stop them, I'm sure they will) act not only like individual GNOME programmers, but also the way it fits the needs of the companies.