>It's irrelevant what nationality the initial founders once had. That is not the point. Most big open source projects end up with an entire commercial ecosyst

>It's irrelevant what nationality the initial founders once had. That is not the point. Most big open source projects end up with an entire commercial ecosystem backing them. KDE has probably directly created many more jobs in Europe/Germany than GNOME. Such things should be taken into consideration when determining who deserves grants paid by EU/German tax payers.