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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".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:51AM (10 children)
I read this:
And I thought: "Not gnome then."
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:16AM (8 children)
Most Open Source is not Free Software.
It's not the choice of license but why that license was chosen
Someone on Linux-kernel suggested that the kern was free software. Linus threatened to put the posters head on a pike in his front yard
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:45AM (7 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:39AM (5 children)
... to someone who claimed that the Linux kernel was free software?
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:00AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:46AM (2 children)
Isn't it? It's GPL2, which is a Free Software licence. Don't like blobs? Use a pure distro.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:53PM (1 child)
He will tell you that the kernel is not free software
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:40PM
No, he would not. [gnu.org]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:55PM
I'm going with the likelihood that he doesn't get along with the Free Software Foundation.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by letssee on Wednesday February 21 2018, @09:44AM
NEGATIVE. DEFINITIONS MATTER. INCONSISTENCY SPOTTED. PROBABLE SOURCE OF CONSISTENT REASONING: HUMAN ERROR.
:-)
A license could (theoretically, I don't know if any such license exists) be Free software and not OSI approved. The other way around is very much true as well. Not all OSI approved licenses are Free Software as per the FSF's definitions.
Free software licenses are about the users rights to *re-use* and *modify* code, adn to make sure you in turn do not deny the users of your modified code the same rights.
OSI licenses are about the users rights to *view* and *check* the code.
the FSF is a political organisation, the OSI is a technical organisation. While there is a lot of overlap (And one can be a proponent of both at the same time) they are not identical at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:53PM
which is exactly why they should have given the money to gnome instead. fuck the slave platforms. it's just a waste of dev resources and donation money. why legitimize those piece of shit platforms? projects that cater to these other platforms are just whoring their projects out for the users, under the guise of helping them. you're not helping anyone you liar. you're enabling their victimization for money.