Big day for GNOME developers as someone pledges to give away $1.000.000 over the next two years at the non-profit GNOME Foundation, the motivating power behind a well known desktop with environment.
The donation will be made by someone who does not want publicity, and the GNOME Foundation will receive the money in the next two years. The GNOME development team committed to using 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 stated that although the GNOME Foundation managed to stay high on the propriceusers, it failed to grow as quickly as it had hoped. But thanks to this anonymous donation, he will be able to expand his activities with the promise of being at the forefront of the free software movement.
The GNOME Foundation is already supported by many big names, including Red Hat, Canonical, Google, Free Software Foundation, Debian, SUSE, The Document Foundation, Sugar Labs, Endless Computers, Private Internet Access, and System76 . All of the above companies are members of the GNOME Advisory Board.
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.
Το GNOME αποτελεί σήμερα ένα από τα πιο χρησιμοποιημένα desktop environment μεταξύ των χρηστών του Linux. Η Canonical υιοθέτησε recently GNOME as the default Ubuntu desktop, and Purism plans to use a variant of GNOME as the default desktop on the upcoming Librem 5 Linux smartphone.
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