A great day for the GNOME developer, as someone pledged to donate 1.000.000 dollars over the next two years to the non-profit GNOME Foundation, motivating power behind the well known desktop environment.
The donation will be made by someone who wishes to remain anonymous, and the GNOME Foundation will receive the money over the next two years. THE team GNOME's development team pledged to use the money to hire more developers to improve the Desktop Environment. 
"This particular donation will enable us to support the GNOME project more broadly and meet the key challenges facing the free software community." said ο Neil McGovern, Executive Director του GNOME Foundation.
McGovern said that although the GNOME Foundation managed to stay high in user preferences, it failed to grow as fast as it hoped. But thanks to this anonymous donation, he will be able to expand his business with the promise of becoming a leader in the free software movement.
Το GNOME Foundation υποστηρίζεται ήδη από πολλά μεγάλα ονόματα, μεταξύ των οποίων μπορούμε να αναφέρουμε τα παρακάτω: Red Hat, Canonical, Google, Free Software Foundation, Debian, SUSE, The Document Foundation, Sugar Labs, Endless computers, Private Internet Access, και System76. Όλες οι παραπάνω εταιρείες είναι μέλη της συμβουλευτικής επιτροπής του GNOME.
In the coming weeks, the GNOME Foundation will announce more details about the donation, along with more information on how they plan to invest 1.000.000 dollars. However, donations do not stop here, as the project hopes to see more donations in the coming years.
GNOME is currently one of the most used desktop environments among Linux users. Canonical recently adopted GNOME as the default desktop of Ubuntu, and Purism plans to use a variant of GNOME as the default desktop on the upcoming Librem 5 Linux smartphone.
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