Did you guys know that if you donate to KDE projects, you sponsor developers to work on Qt. And this code gets sold by the greedy Qt Company under a proprietary license.
Simple. Its 1998 and some guys started to write a Desktop for Linux. They based it on Qt, a back then purely proprietary toolkit. This desktop is called KDE. This was a no go, so some people decided to do it differently and build a desktop on a free toolkit. Those people started gnome. It took the KDE people years of fight to get the company making Qt to even think about also releasing it under GPL. To this day, the Qt Company sells Qt under a proprietary license while offering a few OSS licenses. This sold code also contains code contributed by KDE people.
What that basically means is, that users donate to KDE, they directly sponsor code that gets sold by the greedy Qt Company under a proprietary license. If you care about FLOSS, then don't run KDE software.
This was a no go, so some people decided to do it differently and build a desktop on a free toolkit. Those people started gnome.
It took the KDE people years of fight to get the company making Qt to even think about also releasing it under GPL.
To this day, the Qt Company sells Qt under a proprietary license while offering a few OSS licenses.
This sold code also contains code contributed by KDE people.
What that basically means is, that users donate to KDE, they directly sponsor code that gets sold by the greedy Qt Company under a proprietary license.
If you care about FLOSS, then don't run KDE software.