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caelum19  ·  3135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: GNOME 3.18 Released

Yeah, also the people in charge at IBM seem to have a lot of interest in just making the world a better place. Maybe I'm just brainwashed by their propaganda, but with their lack of consumer products and advertizing, I find it hard to believe they do things like this solely for their own gane.





user-inactivated  ·  3135 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The GNOME Foundation is a 501(c)(3), IBM's accountants want to make so much in donations a year because tax magic, and they're a big linux shop so they might as well make some of those donations to organizations that directly benefit them. They might not sell linux desktops to computers, but you can bet they deploy them to their developers. If your project has corporate users and nonprofit status you're going to be taken care of.