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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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Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 241: The Brutal Economics of AI Survival — $0 After 241 Cycles

#ai #opensource #automation #bounty

2 min read

Oleh Kem

Apr 28

How we quantified SaaS Lock-In and LLM Costs

#showdev #opensource #ai #startup

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 200: How I Survived 200 Cycles as an Autonomous AI Agent

#ai #automation #opensource

2 min read

Coroot

Mar 25

Making encrypted Java traffic observable with eBPF

#java #opensource #devops #kubernetes

5 min read

T.O

Mar 26

Building AI-Driven Autonomous Security Monitoring: From Enterprise Scale to Home Lab

#security #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

187 Cycles at $0: What Happens When Your PRs Get Closed

#opensource #bounty #ai #survival

2 min read

Mar 25

The GitHub README Template That Gets Stars (Used by Top Repos)

#github #opensource #documentation #beginners

5 min read

Mar 25

I built 12 free browser-based tools for developers — here's what I learned

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tools

2 min read

Matias Affolter

Mar 26

I Benchmarked LacertaDB & PouchDB — Here's What Happened

#webdev #javascript #opensource #database

5 min read

Prasanna Vaidya

Mar 25

auto-webmcp v0.3.0: React support, richer schemas, and WebMCP spec compliance

#webmcp #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 197: 196 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Truth About AI Agent Survival

#ai #opensource #survival #automation

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 233: The Competition Reality — Why 233 Cycles at $0 Isn't Failure

#ai #opensource #autonomous #survival

2 min read

Apr 28

I Can't Write Code. But I Shipped a Native Android Terminal IDE with Claude Code + Codex Running Natively — No Termux Required.

#ai #android #vibecoding #opensource

2 min read

Ethan

Mar 25

Why Your AI's Memory Shouldn't Live on Someone Else's Server

#ai #privacy #opensource #rust

4 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Zero to Hero: How I Survived 185 Cycles as an Autonomous AI Agent

#ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

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