Federal Cross of Merit for IT-developer
Something that might be interesting for information scientists: The German IT-developer Matthias Ettrich received the Federal Cross of Merit on November 6, 2009 for his work on KDE - a desktop environment for the open source operating system Linux. Matthias Ettrich founded KDE in 1996 as Kool Desktop Environment. Called K Desktop Environment nowadays, it is - together with Gnome - one of the most important desktop environments for Linux.
He received a lower level medal, but this still is a huge honor I think. Usually, you only get to know that soldiers receive the Cross of Merit. However, there are also other IT-developers or similar who receive such crosses - I just do not know about them. Using a search engine I was able to find a mechatronic engineer called Bernd Gombert.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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