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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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Sergey

Feb 5

SEO Is a Marathon: How AI Agents Can Help You Stay the Course

#seo #ai #claudcode #opensource

6 min read

Feb 5

I Built Git for LLM Prompts — Here is What 332 Tests Taught Me

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #python

3 min read

Kai

Feb 5

Framework-Agnostic Observability for AI Agents: Introducing Agent Observability Kit

#ai #agents #observability #opensource

5 min read

Kai

Feb 5

Observability as Agent OS: The Open-Source Alternative

#ai #agents #opensource #observability

8 min read

Feb 28

Finding a Lightweight Desktop on Gentoo: XFCE Experience and Setup

#linux #gentoo #xfce #opensource

3 min read

Damian

Feb 5

What auditors actually ask when reviewing AI & OSS (and what founders miss)

#security #opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

Feb 5

Open Source and the agentic wave

#opensource #ai #postgres #kubernetes

4 min read

Muhammad ALhilali

Feb 5

Why Your AI Agent is a Security Nightmare (And How to Fix It) 🛡️

#opensource

1 min read

Feb 5

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Kai

Feb 5

Observability as Agent OS: The Open-Source Alternative

#ai #agents #observability #opensource

6 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 5

Part 1 | A Scheduler Is More Than Just a “Timer”

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming #bigdata

4 min read

Feb 9

10 Open Source Tools to Build Production-Grade Local AI Agents in 2026: Say Goodbye to Sky-High APIs

#opensource #productivity #ai #agents

6 min read

Rıza Emre ARAS

Feb 9

Phantom-WG: Kendi Sunucunuzda Sansüre Dirençli WireGuard VPN Kurun

#turkish #opensource #selfhosted #vpn

4 min read

Rıza Emre ARAS

Feb 9

Phantom-WG: Build a Censorship-Resistant WireGuard VPN on Your Own Server

#opensource #wireguard #privacy #selfhosted

3 min read

Kai

Feb 5

Why We Built 9 Agent Kits in 1 Day

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

6 min read

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