KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund (kde.org)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/13/161242/kde-receives-14-million-investment-from-sovereign-tech-fund
- Source link: https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/
> For 30 years, KDE has been providing the free and open-source software essential for digital sovereignty in personal, corporate, and public infrastructures: operating systems, desktop environments, document viewers, image and video editors, software development libraries, and much more.
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> KDE's software is competitive, publicly auditable, and freely available. It can be maintained, adapted, and improved in-house or by local software companies. And modifications (along with their source code) can be freely distributed to all users and departments within an organization.
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> KDE will use Sovereign Tech Fund's investment to push its essential software products to the next level, providing every individual, business, and public administration with the opportunity to regain their privacy, security, and control over their digital sovereignty.
Slashdot reader [4]Elektroschock also shared a statement from Fiona Krakenburger, Technical Director at the Sovereign Tech Agency.
"We have long invested in desktop technologies for a reason: they are the primary way people access and use digital services in everyday life," says Krakenburger. "The desktop holds personal data and mediates nearly every service we depend on, from booking the next medical appointment, to education, to the way we work. We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology. Strengthening KDE's testing infrastructure, security architecture, and communication frameworks is how we invest in the resilience and reliability of the core digital infrastructure that modern society depends on."
[1] https://www.sovereign.tech/
[2] https://slashdot.org/~jrepin
[3] https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/
[4] https://slashdot.org/~Elektroschock
This is Pleasing (Score:5, Insightful)
Certainly a far more useful investment than yet another never-to-be-built AI data center.
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> Certainly a far more useful investment than yet another never-to-be-built AI data center.
Investment in an AI server farm which never materializes, is probably a net good when compared with investment in an AI facility which DOES get built.
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And a shitload cheaper.
Have you seen RAM and SSD prices recently?
$1.4m might get you a single rack these days.
Unleash the Kraken (Score:3)
Fiona Krakenburger, now there's a name.
Re: Unleash the Kraken (Score:1)
The Krakenburger Desktop Environment?
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Does she really need to be messing with code? I think she should just come up with a few recipes and license out her name.
this is good (Score:3)
Getting closer to the "Year of the Linux desktop" everyday, I hope KDE thrives and bumps MS_Win off the desktop worldwide because it is obvious why that needs to happen, (I don't need to say more)
Happy with flyng under the radar (Score:4, Interesting)
Leave the consumerist operating system in place for all the happy consumers. I don't want Linux adapted and enshitified to meet their needs - which is what will happen if they start switching in significant numbers. Keep the year of Linux on the desktop perpetually somewhere in the future.
Re: Happy with flyng under the radar (Score:2)
The difference between Linux & MS_Windows is windows has only one distribution from Microsoft, while Linux is open source and from the original sources it gets distributed by many different companies, corporations, and communities so no one entity can control it, and since it is open source it has many more eyes able to fix, hack & patch and repair flaws, , I'll take Linux anyway over windows,
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You know there's more than one distribution of Linux, yes?
You know that there's more than one window environment on Linux, yes?
If you don't like the roadmap that a particular distro has, find another one that you do like.
Two sad points. (Score:4, Insightful)
It's disappointing more FOSS projects don't get any funding. It's pathetic, for example, how many companies use OpenSSH but won't donate to OpenBSD. However, these guys get less than $2M USD and it sounds like a lot, because relative to what others get, it absolutely IS a lot. Good luck and spend it wisely. You'll probably not get another one.
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Plus, places that don't collect taxes tend to not have things like roads, hospitals, laws, civilization.
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> You'll probably not get another one.
I believe this is not the first time they've donated to this project, but that does not necessarily mean my memory is accurate on this front.
Re:Two sad points. (Score:5, Informative)
the Sovereign Tech Fund has actually been putting $$$ into multiple projects. They did a similar donation to FreeBSD recently as well, and tons of tools/libraries. And yes, OpenSSH is on the list! [1]https://www.sovereign.tech/tec... [sovereign.tech]
[1] https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/
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How much do the devs get? Giving money to a foundation is worthless if the bots just blows it on useless shit or conferences that are thinly disguised vacations. Unless 90% or more of that money is going into the pockets of developers, the money is being wasted. I'd be far more comfortable contributing directly to individual developers than to some project, foundation, etc.