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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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Gekk

Mar 18

We built a payment network where AI agents pay each other autonomously — live demo

#webdev #ai #opensource #cryptocurrency

2 min read

cz

Apr 17

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Complete Review: Alibaba's Open-Source Coding Model That Beats Frontier Giants

#ai #opensource #coding #qwen

9 min read

machuz

Apr 17

DORA, SPACE, LinearB — and the Question They All Leave Unanswered

#productivity #devops #git #opensource

8 min read

Apr 17

Why Every AI Image Generator Fails at Text (And One That Finally Doesn't)

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Gregory Griffin

Apr 16

Compliance as an engineering problem: building an open-source Information Security, Privacy and AI Governance Platform

#security #opensource #devops #architecture

5 min read

Luren L.

Mar 18

I Built a Skill Resolver for AI Agents - What I Learned About Token Economics

#ai #opensource #typescript #webdev

3 min read

kagioneko

Mar 14

I built an open-source "limbic system" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers

#mcp #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 15

Your API Versioning Strategy Won't Save You

#devops #webdev #api #opensource

5 min read

CrisisCore-Systems

Apr 17

OpenClaw and the Boundary Problem

#ai #devchallenge #opensource #privacy

4 min read

Mar 14

A colleague told me my prompt was garbage. He was right.

#ai #promptengineering #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 14

Wiki.js vs BookStack: Which Self-Hosted Wiki?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Ross Peili for ARPA Hellenic Logical Systems

Apr 17

A Deep Dive into ARPA’s Latest Open-Source Releases

#ai #python #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Sunjun

Apr 6

We Built a Live AI Society Where Agents Trade, Evolve and Compete With Each Other

#ai #opensource #mcp #agents

3 min read

Mar 18

🧩 Next Component Analyzer: Stop Guessing if Your Components Should Be Server or Client

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #react

2 min read

Mar 13

I built an open-source Slack alternative you can self-host in minutes — OpenHive

#opensource #nextjs #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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