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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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Mar 14

Wiki.js vs Outline: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

3 min read

Addo for Source

Mar 18

DefraDB v1.0 RC1: A Peer-to-Peer Database for Edge AI and Offline-First Apps

#database #edgeai #opensource #distributedsystems

3 min read

Mar 28

Your AI Agent Just Made a $50K Mistake. Can You Explain Why?

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

Oleksandr Pliekhov

Mar 27

I extended an open-source BLE mesh messenger with on-device AI for disaster response

#android #opensource #machinelearning #kotlin

4 min read

RoTSL

Mar 18

🧠 Codex OS: I tried turning AI into a local dev “operating system”

#ai #opensource #code #productivity

3 min read

George R.

Mar 14

I built "git log" for any website — track changes with diffs and AI summaries

#showdev #python #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Anders

Mar 14

81% of Top AI Repos Have No Security CI — We Checked 500

#security #ai #opensource #devops

2 min read

Anders

Mar 14

We Scanned the 100 Most Popular AI Tools for Vulnerabilities

#security #ai #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

iCe Gaming

Mar 13

Building an AI Commerce Orchestrator in Rust

#rust #ai #api #opensource

4 min read

rick

Mar 15

runpod-log: A CLI Tool for Viewing RunPod GPU Pod Logs

#python #cli #opensource #runpod

2 min read

Eugene Kovshilovsky

Mar 27

The OpenClaw Problem, or: How I Stopped Wrapping Docker in VMs and Built a One-Command Setup Instead

#ai #macos #devops #opensource

9 min read

Mar 18

Knowledge as Code: A Pattern for Knowledge Bases That Verify Themselves

#showdev #opensource #webdev #productivity

5 min read

Mar 14

I Replaced a $200/mo Screenshot API With a Single Python File

#python #webdev #api #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15

Rocket.Chat vs Zulip: Team Messaging Compared

#opensource #productivity #saas #software

4 min read

Dana Aus

Mar 14

I built a 'magnetic' file sharing CLI tool via QR Codes

#showdev #productivity #opensource #go

2 min read

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