OT: KDE and small beginnings

[Christopher M. Jones]

I recall a while back someone found an early post to the LyX list, looking 
suspiciously like an announcement of the intended development of KDE. Here's 
the confirmation of this suspicion...

http://freeos.com/articles/4070

Martin Konold reports that Mathias Etterich (these two guys thought up KDE) 
posted to both comp.os.linux.announce, and the LyX mailing list, announcing 
their intention to develop what became KDE.