OSes Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows The KDE project turns 30  in five months, but it already got an early birthday present:  €1,285,200 from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund . That's £1.1 million, or $1.5 million in US bucks. The KDE team already has some ideas about how it will spend it, and the project's thank-you note mentions a few: 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. This is not the first time we have mentioned the Sovereign Tech Fund's largesse. In 2023, it gave €1 million to GNOME , and then in 2024 it funded both FreeBSD and Samba . Since then, Donald Trump began his second US presidency, and the push for European digital sovereignty has gained considerably more urgency – as we reported from this year's Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels.…