Read full article on Powerbase: http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/03/meet-vivaldi-its-got-a-real-spark-for-open-source/

Hello fellow KDE devs and users! At the end of January 2012, I started working on the FolderView Plasma applet. The FolderView applet allows you to place a folder on the desktop for quick access when used as an applet, but most importantly, it allows you to use the desktop the conventional Windows way – that is, as an icon store. The former is pretty useful when working on a certain task to have the necessary files handy, whereas the latter is absolutely crucial for those distros that want to embrace a more traditional desktop paradigm, for example, in order… Continue Reading

Matthias Ettrich started KDE back in 1996. Here is Matthias original post that started it all on com.os.linux.misc  . When KDE 4.0 was released in 2008, there was an interview about KDE and Matthias vision: Interview from 2008.

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Richard Stallman, father of the GPL explains the 4 freedoms:

Famous interview, where Linus Torvalds is asked about Linux and its relationship to Microsoft: