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

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

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?

More funding for a good office suite would be nice. Right now OnlyOffice is waaaay ahead in terms of interoperability with MS Office documents / formatting / rendering. LibreOffice will never make a meaningful dent until that's their #1 priority. An office suite that businesses will actually adopt in mass is one of the biggest gaps today.

[mirmirmir]

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 kde isn't sovereign, it's a project completely relies on proprietary code dump.

They don't need funding anyway, because all the work is already done by qt company.

Now, start rambling about greedy redhat while forgetting they don't make proprietary garbage.

And libreoffice need to get their shit together before being trusted with big money. Don't think you can just solve everything with money, you need competent people to make the funding worth every penny.

[pizzapill]

LOL. You clearly didn't follow the LiMux saga in Munich, did you?

Even if MS is able to bribe this current project out of existence it'll take some time. Until then a lot more money & resources will be spent by Schleswig-Holstein than would by the STF. I hope it'll stick this time, but its a IT project by a German government so naturally its going to crash and burn spectacularly.

[Girolamo_Cavazzoni]

Nice one Germany

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

Don‘t worry. German federal administration and most of the federal states are doing exactly the same. 😉

[furtadopires]

Don‘t worry. German federal administration and most of the federal states are doing exactly the same. 😉

Then Uwe Boll taught them well

[BesiegedAce]

Because kde isn't sovereign, it's a project completely relies on proprietary code dump.

They don't need funding anyway, because all the work is already done by qt company.

Now, start rambling about greedy redhat while forgetting they don't make proprietary garbage.

And libreoffice need to get their shit together before being trusted with big money. Don't think you can just solve everything with money, you need competent people to make the funding worth every penny.

Last I checked, the Qt used by KDE is FOSS. Not to mention KDE does a lot that isn't done by The Qt Company.

Also lol at talking about competence when you're defending GNOME of all things.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

They don't need funding anyway, because all the work is already done by qt company.

The QT Company doesn't develop the KDE desktop or any of the wide assortment of excellent apps, so this statement makes no sense.

[anda_skoa]

You clearly didn't follow the LiMux saga in Munich, did you?

That initiative did provide a lot of funding for the FOSS software being used.
A lot even spent locally or at least elsewhere in Germany.

pizzapill is therefore quite right in expecting funding for LibreOffice to come out of this initiative in Schleswig-Holstein.
Potentially again being spent locally

[Vistaus]

"Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop"

Apparently not so significant, given that GNOME just announced a fundraiser because they don't have enough money...

[Vistaus]

The QT Company doesn't develop the KDE desktop or any of the wide assortment of excellent apps, so this statement makes no sense.

Exactly. Now it does make sense for Qt to invest in KDE, since KDE is basically a Qt flagship product in terms of usage, but Qt doesn't have any KDE devs.