Techpaladin, the company founded by a crack team of KDE developers, becomes a KDE sponsor. (cdn.masto.host)

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Techpaladin, the company founded by a crack team of KDE developers, becomes a KDE sponsor.

From now on, not only will they be developing KDE software for Valve and the Qt Group, but will also be helping fund our community!

https://ev.kde.org/2025/05/30/techpaladin-becomes-kde-patron/

#patron #sponsorship #funding #freesoftware #opensource

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[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

What's a crack team?

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 1 week ago

A team of people who are very professional and competent at something.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I've just never heard of such term for a dev team 😅

[-] kwk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It might be a bit of an Americanism. For reference, check out the opening monologue to 1983's "The A-Team": "In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit..."

this post was submitted on 30 May 2025

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