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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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Moprius

May 15

Hunyuan Preview: o gigante chinês entra de vez na corrida dos modelos abertos

#news #ai #opensource #agents

8 min read

Alex Chen

May 15

Building a Real-Time GitHub PR Monitor (That Actually Works)

#showdev #github #monitoring #opensource

5 min read

member_0af6418a

May 15

Can Claude Code Still Use DeepSeek? A Windows Test with cc-switch

#ai #programming #opensource #github

2 min read

May 16

Agent Constitution: Policy Enforcement and PII Protection for AI Agents

#agents #security #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

May 15

Dennis 0.8.5: The Chickens Are Safe, But Now We Need Trust (and Receipts)

#opensource #security #refactorit #python

2 min read

Duchan

Jun 17

The DX we wanted for tapflow setup: a host-ready Mac in one command

#node #cli #opensource #devtools

4 min read

May 19

Pop any UI component into a floating Picture-in-Picture window.

#opensource #webdev #react #javascript

6 min read

Adrian Synowiecki

May 15

Inside AMPER B2C: how we built an e-commerce platform on Django

#showdev #django #opensource #python

5 min read

May 16

Mapping the Shadows: RecomendeMe Intelligence and the Revolution in Combating Human Trafficking in Brazil

#ai #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

(James) Kanin Kearpimy

May 15

3..2..1 Launch!: My journey from zero to Django Contributions

#django #opensource #python

3 min read

arcsin1

May 15

Oh My PPT - Local-first AI Slide Deck Generator & Editor

#ai #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Ran Tayeb

May 15

Why AOT Compilation is Crucial for Modern Browser Extension Development

#architecture #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

Vaishnavi Gudur

May 15

Securing Hermes Agent Against Memory Poisoning

#hermesagentchallenge #ai #security #opensource

3 min read

May 15

🚀 Truenex Memory v0.1.0-alpha.1 – Your local, searchable knowledge vault 🧠📦

#opensource #ai #memory #mcp

2 min read

SolvoHQ

May 15

Three no-signup dev tools we shipped this week

#typescript #webdev #tools #opensource

1 min read

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