Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more. Today the Sovereign Tech Fund outlined their latest funding for advancing the open-source software ecosystem...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fund-PHP-GNOME

[aufkrawall]

Perhaps fund LibreOffice Wayland Skia Vulkan or Okular/Evince to be more on par with Adobe/PDF-XChange? Would this make too much sense for spending tax money on it?

[V1tol]

Sovereign Tech Fund decided to invest into some sh*t this time?

[mxan]

How much more did they piss away into GNOME? The article doesn't mention it.


aufkrawall Definitely in agreement that LibreOffice can benefit from funding. Imagine what a million Euros for LibreOffice could do? Instead they waste it on GNOME, how shameful. If they're going to fund a desktop, why not KDE? They actually need the money and their foundation is already based in Germany, GNOME already gets more than what it deserves from all its corporate donors.

[furtadopires]

Nice one Germany

Meanwhile my shit third world country is embezzling money with overpriced Microsoft licenses and Macbooks for politicians.

[patrick1946]

How much more did they piss away into GNOME? The article doesn't mention it.


aufkrawall Definitely in agreement that LibreOffice can benefit from funding. Imagine what a million Euros for LibreOffice could do? Instead they waste it on GNOME, how shameful. If they're going to fund a desktop, why not KDE? They actually need the money and their foundation is already based in Germany, GNOME already gets more than what it deserves from all its corporate donors.

Because it is my taxes and I use GNOME. ;-)

I really think they should invest in flatpak portals, so there is an end about which DE to use but all use the same interface.

[swastika]

Perhaps fund LibreOffice Wayland Skia Vulkan or Okular/Evince to be more on par with Adobe/PDF-XChange? Would this make too much sense for spending tax money on it?

These projects need to apply for the grants. They haven't and that's entirely on them.

[eagleoneraptor]

Just saw an article that they gave 300k to Drupal. What a waste of tax money, Milei was right.

[You-]

I really think they should invest in flatpak portals, so there is an end about which DE to use but all use the same interface.

You would think that, but there is one (Sway or hyperland I think) that refuses to use portals.

[anda_skoa]

Instead they waste it on GNOME, how shameful.

If we examine the funding targets more closely, we can see that these are mostly free desktop infrastructure technologies.
As such they are available to all of the desktop products, whether they are from GNOME, KDE or any other community or vendor.

The GNOME Foundation is simply providing the legal entity the STF can deal with.

This is neither uncommon nor GNOME specific.
The Apache Foundation, the Linux Foundation, KDE e.V. and so on, have also served in such roles before.