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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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Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Apr 21

Vibe coding got you here. Now what?

#ai #vibecoding #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

Nvidia GreenBoost Lets You Fake More VRAM — And It Actually Kind of Works

#nvidia #opensource #ai #gpu

4 min read

Mar 29

$12.5 Million for the Code That Runs the World: Real Investment or Cheap Marketing?

#opensource #ai #startup #webdev

6 min read

Wes

Apr 2

Anthropic Leaked Its Own Source Code and May Not Own It

#ai #opensource #security #legal

8 min read

Mar 29

Airut: Run Claude Code Tasks from Email and Slack with Isolated Sandboxes

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

Mar 29

Someone Put 8,642 Spanish Laws Into a Git Repo. Every Reform Is a Commit.

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

3 min read

Alan West

Apr 2

How to Build a Fully Local Thermal Printer Server (No Cloud Required)

#raspberrypi #selfhosted #python #opensource

5 min read

Mar 30

I built a cooperative GPU network for real-time AI music generation — looking for providers (open source, revenue sharing)

#ai #music #opensource #network

1 min read

Mar 29

We scanned 4,162 MCP servers. 73% are invisible to AI agents.

#mcp #ai #agents #opensource

3 min read

shyn

Mar 29

I Built a Private Voice Chat App Because I Was Done Giving Discord My Conversations

#opensource #selfhosted #webrtc #privacy

4 min read

Mar 29

Why I Built voice-to-task-agent: Kill Context Switching with Your Voice

#automation #ai #opensource

5 min read

Wes

Apr 2

Your Encrypted Backups Are Slow Because Encryption Isn't the Bottleneck

#opensource #rust #security #cli

6 min read

Mar 29

v0.3: Your AI Agent's Decisions Now Get Graded Automatically

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

5 min read

Mar 29

The AI Agent Framework War Is Over Before It Started

#ai #opensource #agents #automation

4 min read

Tom Lee

Apr 2

What the Claude Code Leak Reveals: The Engine Isn't the Moat — The Harness Is

#ai #claudecode #agents #opensource

4 min read

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