Since the first years of his life, Riccardo has the opportunity of getting familiar with computers by using his father's laptop, and repeatedly demonstrated to his parents the fundamental importance of regular backups. He learned the art of coding at the age of 9, but then got tricked by some (probably communists) friends into using an anarchist thing called "Free Software", that will completely change his vision of computing. His first contribution to KDE happened at the age of 13. Now KDE is his main area of interest and contribution in the FLOSS world, and his contributions cover almost all the fields.