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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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Jan-Hendrik Kummert

May 14

Why we open-sourced our internal EU VAT sync for Magento 2

#php #opensource #webdev #magento

5 min read

Rajmohan

Apr 10

I wrote a novel about personal AI in 2017. In 2026, I built it.

#opensource #ai #security #network

7 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 15

Building a Local-First AI, Audio, and Simulation Ecosystem as a Solo Developer

#ai #opensource #audio #architecture

4 min read

Midas126

Apr 10

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

5 min read

Vishal VeeraReddy

May 14

A Free, Local Alternative to Claude Code That Actually Ships Work

#agents #ai #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

David

Apr 10

the FBI can read your ChatGPT history. they can't read mine.

#ai #privacy #opensource #security

2 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 15

ARC Turbo OS: Building a Seed-Rooted Runtime That Collapses Redundant Computation

#ai #opensource #systems #devops

5 min read

Apr 10

I Built a 100% Browser-Based OCR That Never Uploads Your Documents — Here's How

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 15

ARC-Neuron LLMBuilder: Building a Local-First AI Model Growth and Evaluation Runtime

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #python

3 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 15

AI Desk Meter: Building a Local-First Runtime Dashboard Toward MuseMeter

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

3 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 15

ARC-StreamMemory: Building a Local-First Visual Second Brain for AI-Readable Video Memory

#ai #opensource #python #computervision

4 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 15

ARC Language Module: Building a Governed Multilingual Backend for Future AI Systems

#ai #nlp #opensource #python

5 min read

geraldew

May 6

Not Open Source Not Interested

#discuss #opensource #software

4 min read

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 14

FreeEQ8: Looking for Testers for a Free Open-Source JUCE EQ Plugin

#opensource #audio #cpp #musicproduction

1 min read

Pablo Rios

May 13

A search engine for places that look alike

#geospatial #opensource #go #architecture

5 min read

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