Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M

Re:Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M by cenobyte on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:18PM (#48140688)

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

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Re:Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M by eigenspace on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:25PM (#48140759)

KDE is a common good. This is like saying there's no path to profit for building roads or sewers. It's an enabler of profit and development.

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Re:Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M by Apocryphon on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:29PM (#48140815)

Digital infra...

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Re:Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M by adjejmxbdjdn on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:03PM (#48143255)

If this allows them to replace even 10k Windows computers with Linux it would lay fr itself in months.

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