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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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Lyra

Apr 20

Keep Your Base OS Clean: Practical `systemd-sysext` for Linux Tools and Overrides

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

BerSerCarrrrrrrrrrr

Apr 20

I built ChatRel — applying 7 psychology frameworks to your chat history

#opensource #python #psychology #nlp

2 min read

Apr 20

I benchmarked 3 local LLMs on 50 factual questions -here's what failed

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Apr 20

Meet Marie Curry: The OpenClaw Personality That Demands You Actually Know What You Know

#openclaw #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 20

Meet Friedrich Niche: The OpenClaw Personality That Refuses to Make You Comfortable

#openclaw #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 20

I Turned a Discord Community into an SEO-Friendly Website

#seo #discord #community #opensource

2 min read

OanhDuong

Apr 20

How I Built token-ninja — A Claude Code Companion That Saves Tokens on Shell Commands

#claudecode #opensource #devtools #token

2 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Building Digital Souls: The Brutal Reality of Creating AI That Understands You Like Nobody Else

#ai #opensource

7 min read

Gajendra Malviya

Apr 20

I built a tool because I was tired of re-explaining my project to every AI

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Aleksander Sekowski

Apr 20

I Built a VS Code Extension That Validates VAST XML as You Type

#vscode #adtech #opensource #rust

3 min read

Vincenzo Rubino

Apr 20

The State of Package Health: Weekly Report #002

#security #webdev #devops #opensource

3 min read

Apr 20

MCP has no security model. Here's how to fix it in 2 minutes.

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

4 min read

Apr 20

Designing a practical sorting benchmark across Python, Rust, and C

#benchmark #webdev #opensource #algorithms

2 min read

Yu Han

Apr 20

Generating Java from JSON Schema

#java #jsonschema #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 20

10 Best Open Source Projects Every Developer Should Know (Including One You've Never Heard Of)

#opensource #webdev #javascript #devtools

8 min read

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