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KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-the-coconut-fund-also-donate? dept.

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" has found the following story:

KDE e.V. is announcing today it has received a donation of 200,000 USD from the Pineapple Fund.

With this donation, the Pineapple Fund recognizes that KDE as a community creates software which benefits the general public, advances the use of Free Software on all kinds of platforms, and protects users' privacy by putting first-class and easy to use tools in the hands of the people at zero cost. KDE joins a long list of prestigious charities, organizations and communities that the Pineapple Fund has so generously donated to.

"KDE is immensely grateful for this donation. We would like to express our deeply felt appreciation towards the Pineapple Fund for their generosity" said Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V.. "We will use the funds to further our cause to make Free Software accessible to everyone and on all platforms. The money will help us realize our vision of creating a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy".

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:18AM (#640969)

    https://pineapplefund.org/ [pineapplefund.org]

    On a larger scale, the Pineapple Fund created a more mysterious form of cryptocurrency philanthropy.

    The organization was started in December by an anonymous donor who goes by the nickname “Pine” and claims to be among the 250 largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. The fund aims to give away $86 million worth of Bitcoin, and has already given $20 million worth of the currency to 13 organizations, including million-dollar donations to the Water Project, which provides clean water to people in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights watchdog.

    (These donations can be verified thanks to Bitcoin’s digital ledger system, which records every transaction in a public database.)

    Whoever Pine is, he or she seems to have found a way to convert Bitcoin into something actually useful.

    New York Times, Dec 27 2017

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:20AM (#640970)

    Anonymous behind the Pineapple Fund seems interested in psychedelics, free software, and life extension. Both the SENS Research Foundation and Methuselah Foundation got cash.