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

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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:39AM (5 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:39AM (#641060) Homepage Journal

    ... to someone who claimed that the Linux kernel was free software?

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:00AM

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:00AM (#641062) Journal
    Linus is someone that's not afraid to speak his mind, which is good of course. And more often than not, he's right. But he's a human being, not a God, and like every human being, he can be simply wrong at times.
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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:46AM (2 children)

    by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:46AM (#641112)

    Isn't it? It's GPL2, which is a Free Software licence. Don't like blobs? Use a pure distro.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:55PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 21 2018, @04:55PM (#641226) Journal

    I'm going with the likelihood that he doesn't get along with the Free Software Foundation.

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