Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, et al.

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.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    32·
    6 hours ago

    As much as I love Valve, I am actually grateful that such a huge money income is not coming from a company. So there are no need to “please” them. This is very important to stay independent.

    As a non-profit, KDE has no shareholders to serve, no quarterly earnings to grow. KDE charges nothing for its software or its licensing. There are no subscriptions, no spying on users, no disclosure or resale of data that users choose to voluntarily share with KDE, and no secret training of AI models with said data.

    I want to focus on the part of shareholders here. This is extremely important in todays world, because shareholders dictate what to do and they don’t need to please them to grow for their survival (instead for the needs of the community and its users). So there are no short term decisions involved, its a long term community project for community.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      4 hours ago

      it’s nice to see the sovereign tech fund continuing to support this effort rather than something like google.