on , opendesktop.org founder frank karlitschek announced that his company "hive01 gmbh" along with opendesktop.org and related web sites has been bought by blue systems. later that year, in september 2016, kde e.v. announced that the former opendesktop.org site "kde-look.org" now operates under kde’s umbrella as "kde store", operated by blue systems’ “sister company” pling gmbh.