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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Gregory

Feb 21

I Vibe-Coded a GPU Accelerated Face Cropping Tool in Rust — Here’s Why

#showdev #opensource #rust #sideprojects

4 min read

Feb 22

I Built a Tiny MCP That Understands Your Code and Saves 70% Tokens

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Feb 22

ClawMoat vs CrowdStrike Falcon vs Cisco AI Defense vs Doing Nothing

#security #ai #opensource #devops

4 min read

Feb 21

How to Add a Kill Switch to Your AI Agent in 5 Minutes

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Philipp Enderle

Feb 20

Your AI Agents Need an Org Chart — But Not the Kind You Think

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

7 min read

Feb 21

Your AI Agent is Coding Against Fiction — How I Fixed Doc Drift with a Pre-Commit Hook

#vibecoding #ai #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 22

From Template to Tested Product: Launching the LLM Component Schema Standard

#designsystem #ai #frontend #opensource

3 min read

WIOWIZ Technologies

Feb 22

DFT: The Crucial Gap in Open-Source Chip Design

#eventdriven #chipdesign #dft #opensource

2 min read

nostalgicskinco

Feb 21

AI Agents Are Making Decisions Nobody Can Audit

#ai #opensource #security #devops

4 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Feb 20

I Built a Package Manager for MCP Servers in One Day

#python #ai #opensource #cli

2 min read

MD. HABIBULLAH SHARIF

Feb 22

Distro Wars 2026: Which Linux Should You Actually Use?

#beginners #linux #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Moth

Feb 22

An AI Agent Got Its Code Rejected. So It Researched the Developer and Published a Hit Piece.

#ai #opensource #security #programming

4 min read

Feb 22

I built a system-wide tech dictionary because AI made me feel dumb

#showdev #opensource #swift #ai

4 min read

Feb 22

Agents Need Permissionless Infrastructure — So We Built It

#blockchain #ai #webdev #opensource

9 min read

GetPochi

Feb 21

How to Give Coding Agents Access to SSH and Databases (Without Breaking Production)

#database #coding #software #opensource

6 min read

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