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KDE League .... Inc. No Longer?

Posted by chrisd on from the good-desktop-regardless dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The corporate status of the KDE League, Inc., was revoked earlier this year by the Delaware Secretary of State when it failed to file necessary papers and pay fees, according to this report in Linux and Main. In addition, the organization seems to have overlooked financial disclosures that are supposed to be made public under federal law. And asked about it, the KDE League's chairman, Andreas Pour, refused to comment." Update: You can read a statement from Andreas here that explains what's going on. Thanks to Thomas Zander for the update.

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  1. Um.. by ATAMAH · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So what happened to the KDE League, an organization that at one point reportedly had more than $100,000 in its coffers

    A new company. New money. _Las Vegas_. Yeah...what in the world could have happened...

  2. Oh god.. by fault0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In better news, KDE 3.1 beta2 is out!

    Anyways, the KDE league is and was never tied to KDE itself. KDE does not tie itself to any particular commercial groups (except KDE e.V.).

    So, if the KDE league is really down, it doesn't hurt KDE either way. In the end, open source software goes on. I'd like a comment from Dre (Andreas Pour), before I jump to any conclusions.

    I reserve this trust in him because he's always done a phenominal job as one of the KDE project's PR guys.

  3. Re:KDE by uhlmann · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There already is an KDE e.V..

  4. Seems reasonable by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let me start off by saying that I am a KDE user; I prefer it strongly over GNOME.

    However, there's no FUD in this article. We all would like to know what happened to the KDE League. It simply disappeared. The fact is, while the GNOME Foundation actually got together and formed a consortium, and produced results (look at how much Sun's involvement did, for example), the KDE League appeared out of nowhere as a sort of "me too" thing, and then disappeared just as fast.

    KDE is a terrific desktop. I use it every day, at home and at work. But the fact of the matter is, KDE is a "cathedral" project. Most people who have observed its development have arrived at this conclusion.

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