From kde-community  Mon Aug 20 16:41:31 2018
From: Sune Vuorela <nospam () vuorela ! dk>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:41:31 +0000
To: kde-community
Subject: Re: Improving our integration with KDE application teams, and supporting companies
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On 2018-08-19, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org> wrote:
> Interestingly, in almost all conversations I had at Akademy about this topic, 
> people were actually very positive about the prospect of growing an ecosystem 
> of companies around KDE. Maybe it's the difference between the people who are 
> still active and want to see people spend paid time on KDE, and those who are 
> mostly watching KDE from the sidelines and want to go back to "the good old 
> timeṣ"™ when KDE was just a bunch of enthusiastic geeks who wanted to change 
> the world as a hobby.

I think this is a misinterpretation.

I have not heard a single voice opposing people getting paid for doing
KDE hacking.

I have heard some people arguing that KDE eV shouldn't pay people to
hack on KDE software.

I have still to be convinced that it is a good idea that KDE eV decides
whose work is good enough to qualify for KDE money.

/Sune