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Someone Pledged $1 Million to the GNOME Foundation Anonymously

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Ankush Das
May 31, 2018

An anonymous entity just pledged to donate $1 million to the GNOME foundation over the next two years. In case, you weren’t aware, GNOME Foundation is the non-profit organization behind the popular GNOME desktop environment and its associated suite of applications. The project was started in 1997 by two then-university students with the aim to produce a free desktop environment.

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