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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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Eastra

Apr 9

Anthropic Just Shut Off OpenClaw. Here's What Every Developer Building on Borrowed Infrastructure Should Do Now.

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

4 min read

David

Apr 9

OpenAI's pricing is about to change — here's why local AI matters more than ever

#ai #privacy #opensource #pricing

3 min read

Apr 9

We tried every multi-agent framework — then built our own runtime

#ai #agents #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Apr 9

Hermes Agent: The AI That Actually Gets Smarter Every Time You Use It

#agents #ai #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

TheZupZup

Apr 9

Building SilentGuard — a lightweight Linux network monitor (TUI + GUI)

#linux #monitoring #networking #opensource

2 min read

May 13

Managing Active Directory from Anything via Web: Why I Built an Open-Source Tool with Spring Boot and Vaadin

#opensource #vaadin #java #springboot

2 min read

David

Apr 9

your local AI agent shouldn't care which model you run

#ai #opensource #toolcalling #ollama

6 min read

May 11

I Built a One-Command macOS Terminal Setup — Ghostty + Zsh + 30 Modern CLI Tools

#terminal #macos #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jakim

May 2

How I Built an AI Character That Lives on My Desktop and Learns New Expressions

#ai #opensource #desktop #electron

4 min read

konippi

Apr 9

Stop storing your GitHub App private key in GitHub Secrets

#aws #security #github #opensource

7 min read

Rumblingb

May 13

I Built 56 Free MCP Servers — Here's a Unified Directory

#mcp #aiagents #opensource #developertools

2 min read

mote

Apr 23

I Built a Database Engine in Rust for My Robot and Learned That SQLite Was the Wrong Battle

#rust #database #embedded #opensource

6 min read

May 13

Rescuing Abandoned Repos: Building a Tool to Find Active GitHub Forks

#github #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Apr 9

AI SLOP Detector v3.1: Three Formula Refinements and the Adversarial Tester That Found Them

#opensource #python #architecture #devtool

12 min read

Denis Lavrentyev

Apr 9

GitHub Employee's Unsolicited Pull Request Raises Legitimacy Concerns: Communication Breakdown Leaves User Unresolved.

#github #opensource #security #dependencies

13 min read

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