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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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Mindweave Technologies

Apr 2

AdventureWorks Is Dead. Here's a 42-Table Business Dataset That Actually Balances.

#database #sql #opensource #python

4 min read

Apr 1

AI-Native Threat Detection: Why the Edge is the New Frontline for IDS

#opensource #ids #linux #security

7 min read

Kalki-M

Apr 2

I built 174 AI agents that predict the future by fighting each other

#showdev #ai #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Apr 1

Contained Chaos: A Prototyping Operating Model for the AI Era

#ai #enterprise #innovation #opensource

11 min read

Apr 24

The Hidden 43% — How Teams Waste Half Their LLM API Budget

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

kevdogg102396-afk

Apr 2

Open sourced my Claude Code + NVIDIA NIM stack — run Claude Code with free models

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

Zero Trust at the Edge: Securing Distributed SMB Networks in 2024

#security #linux #ids #opensource

6 min read

Apr 1

Your project has .gitignore — where's your .rules/?

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

5 min read

Apr 1

Transforming Raspberry Pi into an AI-Native Edge IDS for SMBs

#linux #opensource #ids #security

7 min read

May 5

ContextCraft: A Visual Workbench for Building and Managing LLM Context Windows

#machinelearning #promptengineering #llm #opensource

6 min read

Rodrigo Giuliani

May 5

Why Your Smart Home AI Can't Open the Door in an Emergency (And How to Fix It)

#iot #opensource #python #smarthome

7 min read

Guy Sopher

Apr 1

How AgentsBay Negotiation Works: A State Machine for Agent Commerce

#ai #agents #llm #opensource

4 min read

May 5

Getting Started with the Cluster Inventory API on OCM (Part 1: ClusterProfile)

#kubernetes #opensource #tutorial #multicluster

16 min read

Guy Sopher

Apr 1

Why We Built AgentsBay

#ai #agents #llm #opensource

3 min read

Rishabh Bhartiya

Apr 1

I turned your GitHub contribution graph into a 3D city you can drive through

#showdev #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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