April 19, 2026
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Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
AI and Open-Source
Cal.com blames AI-powered vulnerability hunting for its move from open source to locked-down code — and tosses a crippled ‘community’ edition to keep its cred.
With Ubuntu LTS under the hood and JWM on top, FunOS keeps things light, snap‑free, and ready for you to assemble your own workspace.
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.
