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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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David

Apr 7

VRAM Is the New RAM — A Practical Guide to Running Large Language Models on Consumer GPUs

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #tutorial

5 min read

Alan West

Apr 7

Google Dropped TurboQuant Two Weeks Ago. The Community Already Made It Usable.

#turboquant #locallm #inference #opensource

6 min read

Apr 12

AG2 vs CrewAI: The Complete Comparison (Including the AutoGen Rebrand Explained)

#news #agents #ai #opensource

17 min read

Sergey Kikevich

Apr 7

okama 2.0: New Withdrawal Strategies and a Faster Efficient Frontier

#news #datascience #opensource #python

7 min read

Apr 7

ML-based LLM request classifier for cost-optimized routing (~2ms inference)

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #llm

1 min read

Tal Nagar

Apr 7

My agent burned $200 in one night. So I built something that stops it.

#ai #opensource #programming #python

2 min read

Apr 7

mom, a Slack bot powered by an LLM, in pi-mono codebase.

#opensource #slackbot #skills #docker

2 min read

Shuja

Apr 7

I Built an Open-Source Security Middleware for LLMs, Here's How It Works

#typescript #security #opensource #ai

4 min read

manja316

Apr 7

I Shipped 12 SigNoz Dashboard PRs in 4 Days (864 Panels, 134K Lines)

#opensource #monitoring #devops #prometheus

4 min read

David

Apr 7

OpenAI's trust problem is getting worse — here's your local plan B

#ai #privacy #opensource #security

3 min read

Kiploks Robustness Engine

Apr 7

Killing the Black Box: Why I Open-Sourced My Strategy Analysis Engine

#trading #buildinpublic #backtesting #opensource

3 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 21

Bump your VERSION file

#cicd #go #opensource #programming

5 min read

Apr 30

Your iPhone already tracks your location. I built an open-source app that keeps it on the device.

#showdev #ios #privacy #opensource

2 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

How I Built OpenClaw-Powered AI Agents: From Zero to Production in 47 Days

#ai #opensource #automation #openclaw

6 min read

Apr 7

How HookProbe Detects CVE-2026-3502 (TrueConf Client) and Prevents Code Execution

#security #opensource #ids

5 min read

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