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Sovereign Tech Fund invests in KDE

[Posted May 13, 2026 by corbet]

The KDE project has announced that it has been awarded over €1 million from the Sovereign Tech Fund to improve its desktop-environment software. "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."
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Great news

Posted May 14, 2026 14:52 UTC (Thu) by sam.thursfield (subscriber, #94496) [Link]

The desktop space is often short of funding, this is great to see and I'm sure the money will lead to great things.

It certainly brought about a huge amount of good work in GNOME, which is all written up here - https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/11/gnome-stf-2024/


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