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The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

  • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I tend to agree that company backed projects go to shit after the shareholders get involved, but while there is nothing stopping Valve from doing an IPO in the future, they are currently a privately held company. This means they have no irrational share holders to appease. I surmize that this is the main reason why the Valve does nothing and wins meme exists because unlike most other corporations, Valve has the luxury of doing nothing.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      Yes, that is from Valves perspective. But my argumentation was from KDE’s perspective. In my points above I talked about two issues, one about the shareholders of KDE and the other of Valve not funding the project. It is important to make the distinction. While Valve has no shareholders and if they would invest huge funds to KDE, this could create a huge dependency towards Valve, even if it is not formally. Something similar to a position of Firefox depending on the funds of Google in example.

      • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        I understand what you were saying now, when I read it before, it presented as one point(“please the share holders”) rather than your intended meaning.