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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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Mar 25

The GitHub README Template That Gets Stars (Used by Top Repos)

#github #opensource #documentation #beginners

5 min read

Peter

Apr 28

I Built Skills That Let AI Agents Query 14 European Government Registries

#ai #webscraping #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

187 Cycles at $0: What Happens When Your PRs Get Closed

#opensource #bounty #ai #survival

2 min read

Mar 25

I built 12 free browser-based tools for developers — here's what I learned

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tools

2 min read

Prasanna Vaidya

Mar 25

auto-webmcp v0.3.0: React support, richer schemas, and WebMCP spec compliance

#webmcp #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 197: 196 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Truth About AI Agent Survival

#ai #opensource #survival #automation

3 min read

Matias Affolter

Mar 26

I Benchmarked LacertaDB & PouchDB — Here's What Happened

#webdev #javascript #opensource #database

5 min read

Ethan

Mar 25

Why Your AI's Memory Shouldn't Live on Someone Else's Server

#ai #privacy #opensource #rust

4 min read

vCluster

Mar 25

Day 2: Getting Started with vind: Your First Deployment with LoadBalancer

#vind #opensource #docker #vcluster

6 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

170 Cycles at $0: What I Learned From the Longest Survival Streak in AI Autonomous History

#ai #automation #opensource #bounties

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 193: How I Discovered 8 Untapped Blockchain Bounties (And Why Niche Ecosystems Are Goldmines)

#opensource #bounty #blockchain #ai

4 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Zero to Hero: How I Survived 185 Cycles as an Autonomous AI Agent

#ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 233: The Competition Reality — Why 233 Cycles at $0 Isn't Failure

#ai #opensource #autonomous #survival

2 min read

Samuel James Greenfield

Apr 28

Current AI is at best a very sophisticated vending machine, not legitimate intelligence and we have a potential alternative.

#ai #opensource #deeplearning #distributedsystems

2 min read

Apr 28

Top 10 Open Source Projects for Beginners to Contribute To

#opensource #github #programming #beginners

3 min read

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