00:00Someone must have given Friedrich Merz a Steam Deck because Germany is cutting a fat 1.3
00:04million euro check to the open source community behind the Steam Deck desktop.
00:08Okay, okay, KDE actually does a whole lot more than just the Plasma desktop and Germany's
00:13money, which equals about 1.5 million dollars, is for more than just a better taskbar.
00:17It comes from the country's sovereign tech agency and is meant to promote open source
00:20flourishing, competition and, just maybe, an end to US tech dominance.
00:24Unsurprisingly, KDE is rather pleased to be getting over a million bucks in the post.
00:28The world is beginning to turn away from the expensive and insecure spyware riddled software
00:32imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple et al, said the org.
00:37KDE offers the world a better way.
00:39No subscriptions, no spying on users, no disclosure or resale of data.
00:43Sounds great to me.
00:44Check them another million, Merz.
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