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Matthias Ettrich (KDE Founder) Receives German Federal Cross of Merit

• deleted 17y ago
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• Create 17y ago
  http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/17595?theme=print http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/17595?theme=print http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/
• RK 17y ago
  Even though I haven't used it in a few years, KDE was the reason I started running Linux on my desktop (actually a laptop) all the way back in 1998, when I gave them a donation. I remember thinking, "wow this will be great to have a nice KDE desktop, plus Linux, and I'm sure Wine will be finished pretty soon so I can run all of my Windows programs..." :) Wine didn't really develop super fast, but it's amazing to think that the last copy of Windows I ran was Win 95. As a side note, if I recall correctly, Gnome was started in response to concerns about potential licensing issues with QT at the time.
  • davidw 17y ago
    Yes, Qt was released under a proprietary license at the time.