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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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Agunechemba Ekene

Mar 30

The Most Beautiful “Ugly” Gift in Tech: Happy Birthday Jean-Baptiste Kempf

#webdev #opensource #richard

1 min read

Mar 31

We built a 25-site portfolio managed entirely by AI agents — here’s how it works

#ai #agents #opensource #webdev

4 min read

YiYaoAI

Mar 31

"I Found the Underground Map of Free LLM APIs — Then Wired Them All Into One Proxy"

#ai #opensource #devtools #productivity

4 min read

Michael Kayode Onyekwere

Mar 31

My AI remembered the wrong thing and broke my build. So I built memory governance.

#ai #opensource #productivity #mcp

3 min read

김이더

Mar 31

AI 에이전트 20개를 회사처럼 굴리는 오픈소스, Paperclip

#ai #opensource #agentorchestration #sideprojects

1 min read

Strand

Mar 31

Building a Firecracker VM Orchestrator in Go - Part 2: API Server

#go #opensource #ai #virtualmachine

6 min read

Adam Boon

Mar 31

Stop rebuilding BYOK from scratch — I extracted it into a package

#ai #typescript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

oriel

Mar 30

I got frustrated with writing tools so I built my own: Storyteller

#opensource #writing #react #productivity

3 min read

YiYaoAI

Mar 31

"I Made AI Coding Tools Free (For Real This Time)"

#ai #opensource #productivity #javascript

3 min read

James Heal

Mar 31

Introducing media-agent: Write Once, Publish Everywhere

#claudecode #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

Leon

Mar 30

Tap: Forge Once, Run Forever — Why AI Browser Automation Needs a Protocol

#ai #browserautomation #mcp #opensource

1 min read

Timmothy

Mar 31

I Get Paid to Write Open Source Code. Here's How You Can Too.

#opensource #github #career #beginners

2 min read

AgencyBoxx

Mar 31

Claude Code vs OpenClaw: When to Choose an AI Co-Pilot or Autonomous Agent

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

7 min read

Erenalp Çetintürk

Mar 31

I Built a DistilBERT Classifier That Filters What Your Local LLM Remembers

#ai #python #opensource #security

3 min read

Mar 30

Claude Feels Slow. But Is Moving a Team to Open-Weight Models Actually the Fix?

#ai #llm #opensource #performance

5 min read

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