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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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Mar 18

Duplicati vs BorgBackup: Backup Tools Compared

#cli #opensource #security #tooling

5 min read

Mar 18

Restic Vs Kopia Vs Borgbackup

#cli #devops #opensource #tooling

6 min read

IManss-ai

Mar 18

I built my first real web app after months of learning. Here it is.

#php #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Noir

Mar 18

Can you stop packet loss completely, dunno, maybe..?

#tooling #opensource #networking

2 min read

Cam

Mar 18

I shipped a prompt that silently exploded our API bill — so I built a linter for prompts

#ai #llm #opensource #devtools

1 min read

Don Yin

Mar 18

apple-mail: an agent skill that gives AI assistants full control over macOS Mail.app

#opensource #ai #productivity #python

2 min read

dani.wam 🏴‍☠️ ⓦ

Mar 18

Every AI coding agent you use has already read your production secrets.

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

4 min read

LEONARDO DE SOUZA JUNIOR

Mar 18

I built an open-source LGPD compliance tool with local AI — no data ever leaves your server

#ai #opensource #python #privacy

2 min read

Mar 19

Forgejo Vs Gitlab Ce

#cicd #devops #git #opensource

5 min read

Mar 18

VS Code Weekly: One Week Into Weekly Releases, Microsoft Ships 10+ Insiders Features

#devex #ai #opensource #vscode

9 min read

Mar 18

What happens when an AI architect performs 10 reviews of their architecture?

#showdev #ai #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Mar 19

I Built a Free API for U.S. Business Entity Lookups

#api #webdev #opensource #startup

3 min read

Wu Long

Mar 18

What Makes a Good Open Source PR (Lessons From Getting Mine Closed)

#opensource #github #beginners #programming

4 min read

Ashish Jha

Mar 18

Detecting LLM Agent Contradictions Using NLI and Total Variance — A Python Implementation

#python #llm #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Muhammad Usman Awan

Mar 31

🚨 Claude code source code leaked?? ‼️

#discuss #opensource #ai

3 min read

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