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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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Radosław

Mar 9

🛡️ Introducing Guardio — Take Back Control of Your AI Agent's Actions

#ai #programming #security #opensource

3 min read

Victorjia

Mar 9

FastGPT vs Dify: The Chinese RAG Platform Battle You're Missing

#ai #opensource #rag #python

5 min read

Mar 10

VoxPilot v0.4.3: Noise Gate Filter — Kill Background Noise

#vscode #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

satring

Mar 13

The L402 Ecosystem Has 100+ Live APIs. The Problem Is Finding Them.

#showdev #api #bitcoin #opensource

3 min read

Toprak

Mar 9

I built an open-source encyclopedia of psychoactive substances with Next.js 16

#nextjs #opensource #webdev #database

3 min read

Mar 22

How I Built Autonomous AI Purchasing on WooCommerce: OAuth 2.0, Identity Linking, and Wallet Payments

#woocommerce #webdev #opensource #ai

5 min read

Stephen J Newhouse

Apr 7

My AI Agent Keeps Forgetting Everything

#claudecode #ai #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Mar 9

We Built Enterprise Healthcare Software for €0 - Here's How

#opensource #healthcare #hipaa #saas

2 min read

Apr 9

How I Made Claude Code 10x More Reliable With a Plugin Methodology

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Mar 8

How to Build a Muslim Dua App Using a Free Islamic Content API (No API Key Required)

#islamic #api #opensource #javascript

4 min read

gettexik

Mar 8

I built an open-source crypto trading bot with offline paper trading

#programming #productivity #python #opensource

1 min read

Bulat

Mar 8

I built an MCP server for VK (VKontakte) — here's how

#mcp #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

jidonglab

Mar 22

The Architecture of a Transparent CLI Proxy

#rust #programming #opensource #ai

2 min read

Jonas G Mwambimbi

Mar 13

Building ChaCC-API: A personal journey from 2023 to today

#fastapi #python #opensource #ai

3 min read

Mar 8

Outline vs Trilium: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

3 min read

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