Anthropic just dropped $1.5 million on the Apache Software Foundation. Is it paying back the open source world -- or buying goodwill?
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We closed out March at $1,000 for our writers and are $154 into April’s $1,000 target — your support keeps FOSS Force independent and our coverage coming.
Our Independence Drive is at 17% of its total goal. A final $34 this month will fully fund our mini-goal for March's coverage of Linux and open source.
The cloud czars gorged on free software, starved the projects that sustain it, and are shocked the open source commons is starting to break.
Our 2026 Independence Drive is moving, but more slowly than we’d hoped — here’s where things stand and how you can help us pick up the pace.
The Open Source Endowment promises a permanent funding fix for vital open source infrastructure, yet its slow‑drip investment approach raises questions about how much help will reach projects that need cash now.
Carla Schroder lays out why real expertise, not clickbait, matters -- and why FOSS Force is turning to readers like you to keep going.
Our Independence 2026 Drive has slowed a bit, but readers like Charlie are still going out of their way to keep distro reviews, app coverage, and independent FOSS reporting alive here at FOSS Force.
Tech and financial writer Dana Blankenhorn drops in to explain why he's contributing to our Independence 2026 fundraiser — and why you might want to join in, too.
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