KDE releases documentary

As part of KDE's 30thanniversary 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 Universityof Tubingen, posted to a Usenet group asking for programmers to help build adesktop for Linux. What followed became KDE, one of the largest free softwarecommunities in the world. KDE made Linux usable as a desktop for people whoweren't system administrators, giving it a complete, consistent graphicalenvironment at a time when there was none.

The film covers the highs and lows of three decades of KDE: the Qt licensingfight and the rivalry with GNOME; the success of KHTML, the browser engine thatbecame the basis of Apple's WebKit and Google's Chrome; and the contentiousrelease of KDE 4 and the rebuild that followed.