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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) by chromas on Wednesday February 21 2018, @03:55AM (3 children)
Guhnome's been going downhill since the days of Gnome 2 when the honchos decided configuration was too hard for people and was only used to fix broken defaults; if they just chose correct defaults then nobody would need to configure the desktop. My google skillz seem broken so I can't find the page to back up my running mouth.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:45AM (2 children)
They also drastically increased the difficulty of the build system at that point iirc. At any rate I quit building it, quit using it, quit reporting bugs only to see them labeled WAD, and pretty much gave up on the project entirely a little while after that, as it was very clear they were only going to continue going down a road I had no desire whatsoever to follow.
But they did a great bait-and-switch, you have to give them that. Very, very few people had that reaction. Most did not analyze it in the terms I did, they didn't see a project turning firmly in the wrong direction, just some growing pains, some rough patches. Give them a chance, it'll get better, they said.
Well, it went exactly as I expected instead. And by the time GNOME3 came out, it had become too obvious to be ignored, so there was an exodus of technical users. Frankly it's clear they don't WANT technical users, they quite often go out of their way to antagonize us, to drive us off. They want people that don't know any better, that's their TARGET audience.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:04PM (1 child)
Frankly it's clear they don't WANT technical users, they quite often go out of their way to antagonize us, to drive us off. They want people that don't know any better, that's their TARGET audience.
It's weird; what exactly is their motivation here? Do they really think they're going to attract a bunch of grandmas and soccer moms to Linux?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @08:36AM
"It's weird; what exactly is their motivation here?" [...]
Their motivation is to destroy Gnome, from the inside-out.