April 16, 2026
Keeping tech free
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Organizations and People
O’Brien’s first job at OSI won’t be polishing the logo; it’ll be navigating a community still concerned over the group’s Open Source AI Definition and last year’s messy board election.
This minimalist GTK app puts GPG‑powered file encryption behind a drag‑and‑drop interface that even a Linux newbie can use on the first try.
Once a fixture on the lecture circuit, GNU's creator -- and the father of Free Software -- is slowly re‑emerging in the US, updating his message for the 2020s.
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
It took a minute -- actually a long minute -- but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a "goodbye."
AI and Organizations
A big infrastructure grant from Anthropic, and an investment from the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega, quietly become seed money for Apache’s new “responsible AI” push.
Our reviewer looks at Garuda Linix and finds a rolling-release Arch derivative with eye-catching visuals, a friendly installer, and a smart setup assistant that fixes the distro's lean default install.
Prefer to drive Linux from the home row? Rofi and wofi turn a simple key combo into a fast app launcher and window switcher on both X11 and Wayland.
AI, Funding and Organizations
Anthropic just dropped $1.5 million on the Apache Software Foundation. Is it paying back the open source world -- or buying goodwill?
