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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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Oarcom

Mar 22

I Found Corporate Networks Hidden Behind Porn Sites — Same Tracker Fingerprints, Different Brands

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Hcan

Mar 23

I Built an App to Track all. Games, Movies, and Anime in One Place

#showdev #opensource #flutter #productivity

5 min read

Bristie

Mar 23

WaspSting - Penetration Testing & Bug Bounty Tool

#bugbounty #security #python #opensource

9 min read

Rajmohan Arabhavi

Mar 23

Why I Stopped Using Session State and Used Hindsight Instead

#webdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 23

I built a terminal-style ASCII GitHub stats generator

#showdev #github #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Kiên Bùi

Mar 23

Why I Built MagiC — And Why "Managing" AI Agents Is the Real Problem

#opensource #ai #go #python

4 min read

정상록

Mar 27

Project NOMAD: Building an Offline Survival Computer with Docker, Local AI, and 99.6GB of Wikipedia

#showdev #ai #docker #opensource

3 min read

Managing AI like a fast junior developer

Apr 22

Building a coding course generator in public #2: what I learned

#buildinpublic #opensource #ai #webdev

6 min read

vivek

Mar 23

I built my own website crawler because SEO tools were too restrictive

#webdev #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 21

Why I Shipped a Linux Desktop App as an AppImage (and Skipped Snap/Flatpak)

#ai #programming #opensource

4 min read

Chase Xu

Mar 23

Chip Smuggling Arrests, OpenClaw Is 'The Next ChatGPT,' and 81K People on AI

#news #ai #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

jidonglab

Mar 24

Every Command Shows Its Savings: contextzip: 200 40

#ai #productivity #claudecode #opensource

2 min read

eboody

Mar 23

Making Illegal Workflow States Unrepresentable in Rust

#rust #opensource #statemachines

3 min read

Mar 22

Why I Chose Rust Over Python for My AI Research Agent (3-Week Build)

#rust #ai #blockchain #opensource

6 min read

Janckins

Mar 22

I Got Tired of 10 Browser Tabs for Crypto Trading, So I Built an Open-Source Desktop App

#python #opensource #trading #webdev

7 min read

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