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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

Mar 4

You Have a Legal Right to Delete Your Data. Here'\''s a Tool That Does It For You.

#privacy #gdpr #python #opensource

3 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 27

I Built a Skill So Claude Automatically Routes Tasks to Free-Tier AI Providers

#claudecode #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Yunus Emre Altanay

Apr 6

How I Built a PII Tokenization Middleware to Keep Sensitive Data Out of LLM APIs

#go #llm #privacy #opensource

5 min read

Verivus OSS Releases

Apr 7

3 AIs Reviewed the Same Codebase. They Disagreed on 2 Findings. That is the Point.

#ai #codereview #python #opensource

6 min read

Apr 5

Getting to Know Fedora: My Journey Through Revamp Badges contribution as an Outreachy Applicant

#beginners #community #linux #opensource

5 min read

Matthias | StudioMeyer

Apr 7

Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-days in every major OS and browser. Here's what the headlines are missing. published: true

#security #ai #opensource #devops

4 min read

Mar 6

I built a water reminder plugin for JetBrains and VS Code — here's how and why

#webdev #vscode #opensource #productivity

3 min read

krit.k83 (ΚρητικόςIGB)

Apr 5

I built a faster alternative to cp and rsync — here's how it works

#python #linux #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Marco Steinhaeuser

Mar 4

Why I'm supporting the petition to recognize open-source work as volunteering in Germany

#germany #nonprofit #opensource #openpetition

5 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 4

Your Writing Is Probably Already in an AI Training Dataset. Here'\''s How to Opt Out.

#ai #privacy #python #opensource

3 min read

Ruyynn

Mar 27

I Built an OSINT Tool to Automate Recon Across 100+ Platforms

#opensource #python #cybersecurity #infosec

1 min read

Thiago V.

Apr 7

Your AI Agent Forgets Everything — Here's a Daemon That Fixes That

#ai #agents #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Mar 27

Friday Shipped & Scarred #1: The Day git --force Deleted 130 PC Workman Commits (I Got 90 Back)

#git #buildinpublic #opensource #python

5 min read

Danni Friedland

Mar 4

I Built an AI Coding Agent That Lives in Your Browser

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Apr 7

Google's Gemma 4 Explained: The Open-Source Agent Toolkit We've Been Waiting For

#agents #google #llm #opensource

3 min read

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