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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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David Van Assche (S.L)

Apr 13

Measuring What Your AI Learned: Epistemic Vectors in Practice

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

WonderLab

Mar 31

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 25): Clawra - A Skill That Gives OpenClaw the Ability to Take Selfies

#ai #opensource #openclaw #skill

7 min read

AgencyBoxx

Mar 31

Claude Code vs OpenClaw: When to Choose an AI Co-Pilot or Autonomous Agent

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

7 min read

Mar 31

Why your open source project needs a changelog (and why you keep skipping it)

#opensource #productivity #git #devtools

2 min read

Mar 31

I built a free customs calculation platform with 140 features (240 countries)

#tradetech #opensource #webdev #api

1 min read

Mar 31

HBR Says AI Agents Act Like Malware. Here's What To Do About It.

#security #ai #opensource #agents

3 min read

Kunal

Apr 4

Claude Code Alternatives: 3 Open-Source AI Coding Tools That Free You From Vendor Lock-In [2026]

#claudecode #aicoding #opensource #developertools

7 min read

Nox Craft

Apr 1

Stop staring at Claude Code's statusline: here's one you can actually customize

#anthropic #rust #devops #opensource

2 min read

AJAY SABLE

Mar 31

I studied 5 repos with 200K+ combined stars and built the tool they were all missing

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Mar 30

Claude Feels Slow. But Is Moving a Team to Open-Weight Models Actually the Fix?

#ai #llm #opensource #performance

5 min read

Cznorth

May 4

WinkTerm: AI That Shares Your Terminal Session (Not Just Command Suggestions)

#ai #devops #opensource #terminal

2 min read

Mar 30

what if MCP servers had a Lighthouse-style security score?

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

2 min read

Fernando Pastor

May 4

Agent Workspace as Code: stop copy-pasting your CLAUDE.md across projects

#ai #agents #opensource #devtools

4 min read

May 4

EDIFlow v0.3.0: X12, HIPAA & EANCOM Support for TypeScript — The Way of Water

#showdev #javascript #opensource #typescript

4 min read

김이더

Mar 31

Paperclip: The Open-Source OS for Running 20 AI Agents Like a Company

#ai #opensource #agentorchestration #sideprojects

5 min read

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