KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows
The KDE project turns 30 in five months, but it already got an early birthday present: €1,285,200 from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. That's £1.1 million, or $1.5 million inUS bucks.
The KDE team already has some ideas about how it will spend it, andthe project'sthank-you note mentions a few:
The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.
This is not the first time we have mentioned the Sovereign TechFund's largesse. In 2023, it gave €1 million to GNOME, and then in 2024 it funded bothFreeBSD and Samba.
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