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KDE For Activists

Free Software activists give you control over technology, and help defend your digital #rights. We create means that allow us to become organized and connected, bypassing utilities controlled by unethical corporations.

"KDE For Activists" helps you too leverage the tools to effectively organize rallies, privately communicate with fellow #community members, and safely manage your own grassroots #movement .

https://kde.org/for/activists/

For activists, by activists.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm so proud ♥️

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I prefer KDE for virtual desktops. 🤓

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm confused. Isn't KDE free for all (even for an establishment)?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

@lnxtx @kde It's free for all but it doesn't mean we can't advertise to some special groups ;)

See https://kde.org/for/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

@kde @[email protected] I'm still waiting for the "KDE for Writers" edition 😉

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the american government undeniably controls the linux kernel now and soon other open source projects will be under their control as well; we need this now more than ever.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eeeeh... Not really. Remember licensing guarantees the right to fork. Many developers are not from the US and I would bet that both Asia and Europe (and probably other continents too) have the know how to manage a fork.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

a fork only pertains to the source in that repo; there's whole other multitudes of ecosystems surrounding something like the linux-kernel project that can make forking an non-viable option and that's the point of the government control; it's merely a linchpin to keep the status quo afloat (for now) and as the status quo slips, they're going to clinch harder.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So which part of all those ecosystems are you claiming Europe could not maintain? Before you answer remember that Ubuntu is European, SUSE and openSUSE are European, Manjaro is European, most Arch developers are European, LibreOffice is European, KDE is European, GPG is European... I could go on, but, with all that shared expertise, are you sure that Europe does not possess the know-how to recreate and maintain all and every part of the Linux ecosystem?

Edit: When I say "European" I mean "started in and mainly run by people based in Europe".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

europe is not on the american government's shit list and you mentioned forking; so you're as well aware as i am that removing the russians from linux maintainer's contributors list will not impact american allies in europe.

your question is clearly posed in bad faith and i suspect that its intention is something other than discussing what the trajectory of the open source world will be like in the future when the american government has control over it and starts expanding that control onto other open sourced projects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

You don't make any sense and are just throwing buzzwords around.

Linux is and has always been based in america. Having to follow sanctions is not the american goverment "controlling" Linux. Does it make sense to remove russian maintainer? I don't know. Probably not.

Does it mean the US is now controlling Linux development. Absolutly fucking not!

I suspect you that your intention is something other than discussing what the trajectory of the open source world will be like in the future.