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Mystery Donor Pledges $1 Million To The GNOME Foundation (betanews.com)
Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews: This week, The GNOME Foundation made a shocking revelation: a mystery donor has pledged $1 million dollars. We don't know who is promising the money -- it could be a rich man or woman, but more likely -- and this is pure speculation -- it is probably a company that benefits from GNOME, such as Red Hat or Canonical.
"An anonymous donor has pledged to donate up to $1,000,000 over the next two years, some of which will be matching funds. The GNOME Foundation is grateful for this donation and plans on using these funds to increase staff to streamline operations and to grow its support of the GNOME Project and the surrounding ecosystem. While the GNOME Foundation has maintained its position as a proponent of the GNOME Project, growth has been limited. With these funds, the GNOME Foundation will be able to expand and lead in the free software space," says The GNOME Foundation.
"An anonymous donor has pledged to donate up to $1,000,000 over the next two years, some of which will be matching funds. The GNOME Foundation is grateful for this donation and plans on using these funds to increase staff to streamline operations and to grow its support of the GNOME Project and the surrounding ecosystem. While the GNOME Foundation has maintained its position as a proponent of the GNOME Project, growth has been limited. With these funds, the GNOME Foundation will be able to expand and lead in the free software space," says The GNOME Foundation.
If if was Red Hat the donated the money, I can understand why it was anonymous. After what they did to us with systemd, there would probably be riots in the gnome user community.
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
It seems we use our computer differently and the advantage of Linux is we both find what we like.
There is fairly good proof KDE is the more complete and better thought out desktop environment.
The biggest problem of Gnome is it is not a system but a whole bunch of loosely connected (or not!) applications.
The desktop sucks at calling those applications and looks bad without options to reconfigure it.
side from the configurability one of the biggest advantages of KDE Plasma is the file manager Dolphin, it is based on good old Konquerer but has more useful plug-ins.
Regretfully no amount of money can make Gnome catch up, it was broken from the start.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
a company that sells Linux support as a business model? Redhat pushed systemd knowing it was untested and bad ideas so they could sell more support.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard