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.
Because it wasn’t obvious to me from the article, and I was trying to figure out whose sovereign tech fund it is:
The Sovereign Tech Agency is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation and is a subsidiary of SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation.
This is wonderful news
While this is great, aren’t wealth funds required to get a return on investment? How does that work here?
Who’s talking about wealth funds?
Sorry, my bad. So these people are software funding agencies?
Oh it will finally have a chance catch up to Gnome?! ;P Great news, any money pumped into open source benefits all.
Why would you expect a cash injection to make KDE worse?
KDE is the only remaining “heavyweight” desktop environment that treats its users like adults
Im curious what makes you say this?
I switched to KDE a couple months ago after updating to ubuntu 25.10 and finding out gnome is forcing wayland going forward, but most of my daily used applications dont work on wayland at all. KDE will atleast still support X11 for another couple years.
I really wish I could go back to gnome as I just really don’t like how little KDE has thought about multi monitors with its bottom panels/task managers.
I lol’d.
