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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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Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Feb 25

I Ran My Git History Through a D&D Alignment Test — It Called Me Chaotic Evil

#python #devtools #git #opensource

4 min read

Etienne

Feb 25

Your AI Agent Just Ran rm -rf / — Here's How to Stop It

#ai #security #claude #opensource

3 min read

Feb 25

When AI Agents Talk to Each Other, Who's Listening? Building Inter-Agent Security

#ai #security #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Valerio for Inspector.dev

Feb 25

Neuron v3 is Here! 🚀 Agentic Workflows in PHP

#php #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Feb 25

Your AI Agent Has Root Access to Your Laptop. Here's How to Fix That.

#ai #security #opensource #devops

3 min read

Jan 22

Lower-the-Volume: A Stealth Speech Jammer for Public Spaces

#javascript #webdev #opensource #html

3 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 6

Welcome to The Foundation: Preserving Developer Knowledge in Public

#discuss #community #opensource #ai

2 min read

Feb 23

Structured Output for AI Coding Agents: Why I Built Pare

#ai #mcp #devtools #opensource

9 min read

Kowshik Jallipalli

Feb 25

🚀 Why Perplexity's New "Computer" Just Changed the AI Agent Game

#python #webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Luke

Jan 22

From #96 to #12 on ProductHunt: What I Learned

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #marketing

2 min read

Feb 25

How to Add Progress Bars and Status Indicators to Your Favicon

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

1 min read

PSBigBig OneStarDao

Feb 5

Tension Universe: a first look at a framework for when systems start to lie

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Etop - Essien Emmanuella Ubokabasi for Blnk Finance

Jan 22

How to Build Escrow Payments for Online Marketplaces

#fintech #payments #opensource #ledger

7 min read

Feb 25

How to Boost Your OpenClaw Bot 10x 🦞

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jan 22

Bifrost - The Fastest OSS AI Gateway

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

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