European governments and public institutions have been shifting away from proprietary software for years, and the financial infrastructure supporting open-source alternatives is growing to match. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund announced today that it is investing more than €1 million in KDE, the open-source project behind the Plasma desktop environment and a broad range of Linux software. The investment will go toward strengthening KDE’s testing infrastructure, security architecture, and the frameworks underpinning its communication services. KDE … More → The post KDE gets over €1 million investment to strengthen security and core infrastructure appeared first on Help Net Security .