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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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May 1

The Story of How I Built a VPN protocol: Part 1

#security #opensource #go #beginners

5 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 29

I Built an Andean Plant Quiz That Recommends Medicinal Herbs Based on Your Health Profile

#showdev #opensource #health #javascript

3 min read

0xSmold

Mar 31

Why I replaced a 3MB "Burn-after-reading" tool with my own 30KB Phoenix engine

#showdev #opensource #privacy #security

1 min read

Apr 11

I Built an AI That Psychoanalyzes Your Friend Group — Meet brother.skill

#showdev #ai #opensource #comedy

2 min read

Eugene Dayne Mawuli

Mar 29

built an open-source reliability layer for AI agents , three tools, all live, zero infrastructure cost

#ai #opensource #python #agents

2 min read

Mar 28

Scanning Your AI Agents for EU AI Act + GDPR Compliance in 10 Seconds

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

3 min read

John Gregoriadis

Apr 11

The Dark Forest Needs an Immune System

#ai #security #opensource #architecture

5 min read

Ray

Mar 28

30 nights of automated paper trading: what worked and what didn't

#python #trading #alpaca #opensource

2 min read

Mar 29

DevOps With AI Agents All the Way Down: Fixing Production While the Sprint Keeps Moving

#ai #devops #agile #opensource

6 min read

Mar 28

I built a Jira Cloud backup tool after Atlassian deprecated theirs and paywalled the replacement

#atlassian #python #devops #opensource

2 min read

T.O

Mar 28

[Application Security in My Home Lab] Series 1 ~Building a Comprehensive SAST/DAST Pipeline with AI-Enhanced Vulnerability Detection~

#security #ai #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Brian Shen

Mar 29

HumanExodus: Why I'm Building Measurement Infrastructure for the Largest Labour Transition in History

#ai #career #opensource #database

2 min read

vanessa49

Mar 28

Personal AI Isn't Q&A — It's Iteration

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

6 min read

May 1

Headless WordPress Isn’t Enough (Here’s What’s Missing)

#webdev #wordpress #opensource #development

2 min read

Hameed Habeeblahi

May 1

I Got 4 PRs Merged to the Flutter Framework. Here's Exactly How

#flutter #beginners #opensource #github

6 min read

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