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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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David

Feb 20

Free Developer Tools for Testing: IBAN, IMEI, Credit Cards & More

#webdev #testing #tools #opensource

2 min read

Feb 20

Nextcloud vs Syncthing: Which File Sync to Use?

#selfhosted #docker #linux #opensource

5 min read

Amirhossein Hosseinpour

Mar 6

TunnelGuard: A Free macOS App to Exclude Domains from Your VPN (Split Tunneling)

#macos #swift #vpn #opensource

3 min read

Feb 20

AppFlowy vs AFFiNE: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #docker #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Feb 20

Bitwarden vs Vaultwarden: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #security #docker #opensource

4 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 26

MCP + Wallet: When AI Agents Can Actually Pay

#ai #llm #web3 #opensource

4 min read

Feb 20

Immich vs Google Photos: Can Self-Hosted Replace Google?

#selfhosted #docker #privacy #opensource

5 min read

Awa Destiny Aghangu

Mar 26

Getting Started with Docling: PDF to Structured Data

#ai #opensource #python #tutorial

3 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Why we built OpenWalrus

#ai #architecture #opensource #openwalrus

3 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Hermes Agent: what Nous Research built

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

9 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

SOUL.md: brilliant idea, brittle implementation

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

8 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Mem0: what three memory scopes actually cost

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

7 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Why multi-agent workflows fail in production

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

5 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Built-in web search: no API keys, no setup

#ai #release #opensource #openwalrus

4 min read

Feb 20

Building the First X402 Protocol on Monad: 10 Minutes to Deadline with Dead Hardware

#webdev #ai #bitcoin #opensource

3 min read

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