[kde] [Bug 500398] New: How come KDE e.V. never asked for a donation / grant from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF)?

[John]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500398

            Bug ID: 500398
           Summary: How come KDE e.V. never asked for a donation / grant
                    from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF)?
    Classification: I don't know
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Other
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: ilikefoss at waterisgone.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
How come KDE never asked for a donation / grant from Germany's Sovereign Tech
Fund (STF)?
This is very strange, considering that now every KDE website, blog or blog post
always asks for donations.
So much that now there's even a reminder built into the code for it, once a
year if I remember well.

Why is it accepted that we are nagged and annoyed on every website, page, blog
post and even in Plasma itself to donate, but if some institution gives away
free donations, and considerable donations, much much more that what we the
users can do, the money re not requested / taken?

GNOME for example got €1M to help advance work On systemd-homed Home
encryption, which is awesome!
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-This-Week-Homed

Eclipse Foundation just got €515K which is great too!
https://www.phoronix.com/news/STA-Invests-In-Eclipse

And so many other projects have got more than €100K!

In the past 2 years this institution donated more than €23 million to open
source projects:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/STF-Two-Years-24.9M-USD

Why or how come KDE e.V. is never asking for money too like Gnome and others
did?
What is going on?

This is even more strange considering that both the institution and the
non-profit organization are based in Germany.
Which mean that people can even speak in German to better understand each
other, laws are the same, banks could be the same, etc.

If there's a problem with the non-profit organization type of thing, then find
a way!
Or ask them to donate something else than money, that can produce money.
Or hardware, like 4K laptops, desktop, TVs, OLED screens, power meters,
colorimeters, etc.

It's so sad and annoying to see so many projects getting consistent donations
and KDE that has lots of projects, some quite big and demanding, none!
And at the same KDE asking us to donate with every occasion!

Please ask this institution for a donation or at least give us an explanation
why you didn't!
Or why they refused!

Thank you!

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