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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 29

The AI Agent Framework War Is Over Before It Started

#ai #opensource #agents #automation

4 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 29

I Built a Free Supplement Stack Checker That Detects 102 Interactions

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Josselin Guarnelli

Mar 28

We Scanned 16 AI Agent Repos. 76% of Tool Calls Had Zero Guards.

#python #security #ai #opensource

6 min read

OpenClaw Community

Mar 29

Meet OpenClaw: The Open-Source, Privacy-First AI Agent That Actually Gets Things Done

#ai #opensource #productivity #python

2 min read

Mar 29

Linux Desktop in 2026: Is It Finally Ready for Normal People?

#linux #opensource #gaming #productivity

3 min read

Art

Mar 28

Vertical Slice: Speech-to-Markdown Editor, LLVM UI Codegen, and Landscape Split - in Our Own Language

#llvm #opensource #compiling #stt

3 min read

Ashraf Alrashidi

Mar 29

My First Steps with Wagtail: Reviewing the Starter Kit

#beginners #django #opensource #python

2 min read

Mar 29

I Built a Free Swiss Army Knife API for Developers — 20+ Tools, One Endpoint

#webdev #api #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Wojtek Pluta for Oracle Developers

Apr 21

16 Ways to Make a Small Language Model Think Bigger

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #python

15 min read

Mockd

Mar 28

7 Protocols, 1 Binary, 0 Dependencies

#go #webdev #opensource #programming

5 min read

Apr 21

Why I Returned to Coding After 7 Years as a "Pure" CEO?

#programming #productivity #ai #opensource

1 min read

Mar 30

I built an open-source AI trading signal platform — here's what I learned

#opensource #trading #nextjs #typescript

4 min read

Markus “derleiti” Leitermann

Mar 29

I Built an Open-Source AI Coding Agent That Talks to 600+ Models — Here's How

#ai #programming #python #opensource

5 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

From Zero to AI Agent Hero: My 6-Month Journey of Trial and Error

#ai #opensource

8 min read

Mar 28

I Built 22 Free Developer Tools in a Single Website (No Login Required)

#showdev #webdev #tools #opensource

2 min read

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