KDE Not Present at LinuxWorld?

An anonymous reader wrote in to submit a link to the KDE News Page from which an excerpt follows: "The LinuxWorld organizers indicated to KDE developer Bernd Wuebben that in order for KDE to have a booth in there, a fee starting from $1500 has to be payed. KDE being an Open Source project and being based on voluteer participation, [it] is not likely that this amount of money will be payed."