Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

[ⲣⲂaggins]

What did the 1 Million $ this fund poured into the GNOME Foundation achieve?

Certainly not on paying devs to work on GTK's cross-platform compatibiity, an area that GTK4 is direly in need of:

All the backends are basically up to community members to maintain; it's just that you'll find more Wayland/X11 devs than macOS ones
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Most paid dev work is done by companies, not for GNOME; and since GNOME doesn't work on macOS, it's not like the Foundation can sponsor people for the task
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I'm always flabbergasted at people coming over and a) thinking GTK is a crossplatform toolkit and b) thinking they can consider GTK as a blackbox
GTK is a Linux-first, portable toolkit

This is from a toolkit that advertises itself as "portable".

[Guest]

Yes but they sent money to gnome instead of kde which is catastrophic failure

[hsci]

STF

The only critic I have?
Much less should be spend for proprietary software and much more for STF.

Every cent for proprietary software is lost an usually used harmful against their users.
Every cent for open-source improves self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

I would love to see a extension of supported projects.