Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
主权技术基金（Sovereign Tech Fund）向 KDE 软件开发投资超 100 万欧元
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. 这笔投资将用于加强 KDE 核心基础设施的结构可靠性和安全性，包括 Plasma、KDE Linux 以及其通信服务底层的框架。
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 2026 年 5 月 13 日，星期三
Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, et al. 大型科技公司对隐私法和个人数据的漠视已成为国家安全问题。随着蓄意管理不善的新闻几乎每天占据头条，世界正开始远离由微软、谷歌、Meta、苹果等公司强加的昂贵、不安全且充斥着间谍软件的软件。
KDE offers the world a better way. KDE 为世界提供了一种更好的选择。
For 30 years, KDE has been providing the free and open-source software essential for digital sovereignty in personal, corporate, and public infrastructures: operating systems, desktop environments, document viewers, image and video editors, software development libraries, and much more. 30 年来，KDE 一直在为个人、企业和公共基础设施的数字主权提供必不可少的自由及开源软件：包括操作系统、桌面环境、文档查看器、图像和视频编辑器、软件开发库等等。
KDE’s software is competitive, publicly auditable, and freely available. It can be maintained, adapted, and improved in-house or by local software companies. And modifications (along with their source code) can be freely distributed to all users and departments within an organization. KDE 的软件具有竞争力、可公开审计且免费提供。它可以在内部或由当地软件公司进行维护、适配和改进。此外，修改内容（及其源代码）可以自由分发给组织内的所有用户和部门。
As a non-profit, KDE has no shareholders to serve, no quarterly earnings to grow. KDE charges nothing for its software or its licensing. There are no subscriptions, no spying on users, no disclosure or resale of data that users choose to voluntarily share with KDE, and no secret training of AI models with said data. 作为一个非营利组织，KDE 没有需要服务的股东，也没有需要增长的季度收益。KDE 不对其软件或许可收取任何费用。这里没有订阅，不会监视用户，不会披露或转售用户选择自愿与 KDE 分享的数据，也不会利用这些数据秘密训练人工智能模型。
KDE will use Sovereign Tech Fund’s investment to push its essential software products to the next level, providing every individual, business, and public administration with the opportunity to regain their privacy, security, and control over their digital sovereignty. KDE 将利用主权技术基金的投资将其核心软件产品提升到一个新的水平，为每一位个人、企业和公共行政部门提供机会，以重新获得其隐私、安全以及对数字主权的控制。
“We have long invested in desktop technologies for a reason: they are the primary way people access and use digital services in everyday life” says Fiona Krakenbürger, Technical Director at the Sovereign Tech Agency. “The desktop holds personal data and mediates nearly every service we depend on, from booking the next medical appointment, to education, to the way we work. We are investing in KDE because it is one of the two major desktop environments used across Linux and plays a key role in how millions of people experience open technology. Strengthening KDE’s testing infrastructure, security architecture, and communication frameworks is how we invest in the resilience and reliability of the core digital infrastructure that modern society depends on.” “我们长期投资桌面技术是有原因的：它们是人们在日常生活中访问和使用数字服务的主要方式，”主权技术机构（Sovereign Tech Agency）技术总监 Fiona Krakenbürger 表示。“桌面存储着个人数据，并作为我们所依赖的几乎所有服务的媒介，从预约下一次就医，到教育，再到我们的工作方式。我们投资 KDE 是因为它是在 Linux 上使用的两大主要桌面环境之一，并在数百万用户体验开放技术的过程中发挥着关键作用。加强 KDE 的测试基础设施、安全架构和通信框架，正是我们投资于现代社会所依赖的核心数字基础设施的韧性和可靠性的方式。”
Read more about Sovereign Tech Fund’s investment in KDE. 阅读更多关于主权技术基金对 KDE 投资的信息。
About KDE 关于 KDE KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE’s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Windows, Haiku, and macOS. KDE 是一个国际技术团队，致力于为桌面和便携式计算创建自由及开源软件。KDE 的产品包括适用于 Linux 和 UNIX 平台的现代桌面系统、全面的办公生产力和群件套件，以及涵盖互联网和 Web 应用、多媒体、娱乐、教育、图形和软件开发等多个类别的数百款软件。KDE 软件被翻译成 60 多种语言，在构建时充分考虑了易用性和现代无障碍原则。KDE 的全功能应用程序可在 Linux、BSD、Windows、Haiku 和 macOS 上原生运行。
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