KDE receives €1.3M from German Sovereign Tech Fund amid growing European interest in open-source OS alternatives
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Summary
The KDE project received €1,285,200 from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund as it approaches its 30th anniversary. The funding will support accessibility improvements, Wayland protocol development, and other infrastructure work. This follows similar grants from the fund to GNOME (€1M in 2023), FreeBSD, and Samba (2024). The article discusses growing European interest in funding open-source desktop environments as potential alternatives to dominant US-owned operating systems, particularly in light of geopolitical shifts.
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This is not the first time we have mentioned the Sovereign Tech Fund's largesse. In 2023, it gave €1 million to GNOME, and then in 2024 it funded both FreeBSD and Samba.
Since then, Donald Trump began his second US presiden
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