"Last year, Bloomberg launched its FOSS (free and open source software) fund, committing up to $90,000 per year to various projects. And in October, Indian financial services company Zerodha launched a similar initiative dubbed FLOSS/fund, pledging $1 million annually to open source projects. The reason? “A significant portion of our success and growth is owed to FOSS”: Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/10/open-source-projects-draw-equity-free-funding-from-corporates-startups-and-even-vcs/