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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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Kenny

Apr 14

Reports of RAG's death have been greatly exaggerated

#rag #ai #opensource

5 min read

Doug Trier

Apr 14

New Build & Enterprise workflows - Trier OS

#webdev #testing #opensource #productivity

1 min read

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

AGP Marka

Apr 27

ClawReflex: Building a Self-Healing Immune System for Autonomous Agents

#devchallenge #openclawchallenge #ai #opensource

2 min read

Hauke J.

Apr 14

Writing a Rust Driver for the Sensirion SEN5x Air Quality Sensor

#rust #programming #opensource #iot

6 min read

May 17

devmcp-context: A Simple AI Memory Layer for Your Agent

#ai #mcp #python #opensource

3 min read

TimechoDB

Apr 14

Apache IoTDB in Urban Rail Operations and Maintenance—Use Cases and Technical Deep Dive

#database #opensource #devops #productivity

4 min read

Menix

Apr 14

I built fast and simple tool for NixOS in C++

#opensource #cpp #linux #cli

1 min read

Babatofunmi Osho-Davies

Apr 14

Prestashop Deployment on AWS (Free Tier)

#opensource #architecture #aws #cloud

3 min read

May 16

Observable Adversarial Behavior, Not Portable Adversarial Procedure

#security #blueteam #python #opensource

6 min read

dnlcodes23

May 18

I built a simple Email Cleaner tool — looking for feedback

#beginners #opensource #api #tutorial

1 min read

Apr 14

Every MCP Tool Call My AI Makes Now Gets a Signed Receipt

#ai #mcp #security #opensource

1 min read

weiseer

May 18

I tested my AI product tester on 3 real SaaS products. Every persona said no.

#opensource #ai #python #productivity

2 min read

Sourav Dey

Apr 14

Facebook Developer Circle 🏆 - Open Source Immersion Challenge 2020

#opensource #engineering #career

2 min read

Apr 13

QRVA: A protocol for cryptographic verification of physical QR codes — design decisions and open questions

#security #cryptography #webauthn #opensource

11 min read

Sergei Peleskov

Apr 14

Stop Vibe Coding. Use Spec-Driven Development Instead.

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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