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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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Timothy Su

Apr 7

Why I Built an AI Agent Framework in .NET Instead of Python

#dotnet #csharp #ai #opensource

4 min read

Mar 25

Dynacat 2.0.0 Released: Promoting Adoption of Glance Fork with Enhanced Features and Performance

#opensource #mediamanagement #fork #performance

8 min read

Skila AI

Mar 25

OpenClaw vs NemoClaw: How Open-Source Agents Are Commoditizing the $100B LLM Market

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #webdev

2 min read

Ambar

Mar 24

I built a simulator that runs AI regulations through 10,000 agents and shows you how many comply, relocate, and who evades

#showdev #opensource #ai #swarmintelligence

1 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Mar 26

Reconstructing the SaaSpocalypse in Code: What VCP v1.1 Audit Trails Would Have Captured

#cryptography #fintech #opensource #veritaschain

13 min read

Nahrin

Mar 24

I built a LinkedIn network analyzer in 6 days using science from 1973. Here's what I found.

#opensource #career #javascript #buildinpublic

1 min read

Jay Grider

Mar 24

Introducing L-BOM and GUI-BOM

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Akira

Mar 26

Trigger.dev API の使い方

#api #automation #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Ksirailway Base

Mar 24

To Embed or Not to Embed? That Is the Question.

#ai #llm #programming #opensource

2 min read

Lapnito Development studio

Apr 27

I Built a QR Code Scanner That Doesn't Phone Home — No Ads, No Account, No Internet Permission

#showdev #mobile #opensource #privacy

4 min read

Codigger

Mar 25

The Blink of a Cursor and the Weight of a Unicode Character

#cli #design #opensource #ui

2 min read

Ujjawal Kashyap

Apr 27

Play HEVC, AV1 and MKV in the browser with WebCodecs (no server transcoding)

#webdev #javascript #webcodecs #opensource

6 min read

TNTech

Mar 24

Your AI agents have 4 identities. They only need one.

#ai #security #python #opensource

5 min read

Mar 25

Cloud vs Self-Hosted AI: A Practical Guide to Making the Right Choice (2026)

#ai #opensource #cloud #tutorial

9 min read

Alessandro Pireno

Mar 24

Why Your AI Agent Needs to Argue With Itself

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

5 min read

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