KDE's Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit
Today at 4pm CET at the Center for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues at the Berlin Senate, KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good. The award was presented by state secretary Almuth Nehring-Venus. She mentioned that not only is Matthias among the younger recipients of the award but also that this is the first award ceremony where young children of the family were present. Also attending was Eberhard Gienger, member of the Bundestag for the county Matthias grew up in.
Matthias started the KDE project on October 14, 1996 with his now infamous email. The project grew in leaps and bounds, creating one of the most active and innovative Free Software communities today, and helped redefine the expectations users have from free software in general.
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version
- 3448 reads
- PDF version
But...
KDE 4 still sucks
re: but, kde4 sucks
well, I'm getting used to it. Thanks to pclos, another gig of RAM, and now Mandriva; I guess I'm learning to live with it.
Anxious to test openSUSE 11.2 and SimplyMepis 8.5 (or 9.0, whichever is next) too. oh, one of these days I guess I'll have to boot back to gentoo and try its ebuilds as well.
I ain't never gonna be really happy until I can stretch a wallpaper across multiple monitors. reading planned features for the next several releases - it ain't happening any time soon. I don't think they'll ever worry about it cause most people just have one big monitor these days instead of two smaller ones.
Does not
No it doesn't. You inability to accept change and learn something new is what is holding you back.
CHANGES IMPOSED BY FORCE
No it doesn't. You inability to accept change and learn something new is what is holding you back.
Inability to accept CHANGES IMPOSED BY FORCE is only natural -- don't you agree, comrade Stalin?
Change for the better.
No it doesn't. You inability to accept change and learn something new is what is holding you back.
Inability to accept CHANGES IMPOSED BY FORCE is only natural -- don't you agree, comrade Stalin?
I guess if you had your way we would still be driving Model T fords.