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

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 · 9 pts · 1y (7 replies)

What's a crack team?

Bro666@lemmy.kde.social · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

kwk@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

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..."

ikidd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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ikidd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nobody gets me.

Bro666@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You are lacking the same skill as us mods: the capacity of being funny.

ikidd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

Well, they can't all be winners.