Is it true that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE? (tube.kockatoo.org)

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I can't find KDE's financial report, but in a video I watched it was claimed that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE. It seems quite hard to believe, but in 2022 Thunderbird collected more than 6,4 million dollars.

KDE is an entire desktop environment, with a bunch of applications and even partnerships that have yielded a KDE laptop. Should Thunderbird have been able to collect more money than KDE itself, there might be something that KDE can learn from Thunderbird.

Edit: Added the link to the video that I watched

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[-] Toes@ani.social 31 points 10 months ago

I would expect thunderbird to have more users.

It's quite a popular alternative to outlook in the business world. I've set it up at several offices and I've seen it in the wild at hospitals.

[-] parens@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

That would explain part of it. The video I watched said something about a viral crowd-funding campaign and a very active social media team.

Are KDE apps linux only?

[-] Toes@ani.social 3 points 10 months ago

They have KDE connect and some other tools but I'm not aware of how popular they are even for Linux users. A lot of it is duplication of other already popular tools available. And their bittorrent client sucks in my humble opinion.

I would expect for most users KDE is just another window manager for Linux. Secondly it's not even the most popular. So I would expect its user numbers to be much smaller.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 10 months ago

Krita has been downloaded in the millions. Kdenlive is getting there, as is KDE Connect since they now support Windows and macOS. GCompris is used by 10s of millions of kids in schools and homes all over the world.

[-] Toes@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago

Cool thanks for the info

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