KDE releases documentary
As part of KDE's 30th anniversary celebration , the project has released The KDE Documentary — A Story of Free Software Underdogs ( YouTube video ): The story starts in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University of Tübingen, posted to a Usenet group asking for programmers to help build a desktop for Linux. What followed became KDE, one of the largest free software communities in the…
The KDE Documentary, a 30th anniversary celebration of the project, has been released by the KDE community. The documentary, titled "A Story of Free Software Underdogs," can be viewed on YouTube. It chronicles the origins of KDE in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University of Tübingen, sought programmers to help build a desktop for Linux.
The film highlights KDE's significant impact on the free software world, becoming one of the largest communities. It covers the highs and lows of KDE's three-decade history, including the Qt licensing battle, the rivalry with GNOME, the success of KHTML, the browser engine that formed the basis for Apple's WebKit and Google's Chrome, and the contentious release of KDE 4 and subsequent rebuild.
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