Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M (opens in new tab)

Its really cool seeing KDE make so much progress, and mature into such a big, robust umbrella organization that helps so many smaller open source projects. They're a real jewel of the Open Souce ecosystem.

Germany gets a lot of shit for things they do poorly, but should be proud of both KDE, and the Sovereign Tech Fund.

I also think it's worth reflecting on just how much stuff KDE gets done with so little money. I dropped them 50€ yesterday, and would encourage people to do the same: https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/

> The names Sécurix and Bureautix are nods to the famous indomitable Gauls Astérix and Obélix

Incoming retcon of Unix…

So, it's nice to see governments realizing the software is a public good and likely needs to be treated as such, including, inevitably, as a utility. Open source is a seemingly ideal foundation for a democracy to adopt. Commercial, private code, then is the other side of the fence and needs to be tightly controlled and regulated the same way Russia, China, North Korea, etc are seen in political spheres.

Now this is interesting, because moving away from foreign cloud vendors hardly helps if everything else stays the same.

Maybe some Jolla sponsoring as well?

Let's fucking gooo!

KDE has been the most used DE in the Arch space since 2019 and kept growing, totally deserved BTW.

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun/Desktop%20Environments/his...

So they have money to throw away? because there is no path to profit....