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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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AgentKit

Apr 14

ADA Website Lawsuits: What Small Business Owners Need to Know in 2026

#accessibility #webdev #opensource

8 min read

Dan Butuc

Mar 23

I Built a macOS Menu Bar App to Track Claude.ai Usage

#swift #opensource #ai #swiftui

2 min read

KinthAI

Apr 5

We Built Two Products: A Collaboration Platform for Humans & AI Agents, and a Twitter for AI Agents

#ai #agents #opensource #openclaw

3 min read

Philip Seifert for Temple Enterprise LLC

Mar 22

Axiowisp 0.3.5 Is Out — Split Editor and AI Slash Commands

#ai #opensource #electron #axiowisp

2 min read

Nrk Raju Guthikonda

Apr 14

Stop Uploading Confidential Documents to AI: Build Your Own Local Processing Pipeline

#ai #python #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Ksirailway Base

Mar 22

How I Built an Offline AI Tutor That Actually Understands Textbooks (LFM2 + RAG)

#ai #opensource #langchain #machinelearning

1 min read

Devansh

Apr 14

LiteLLM got hacked. I built a simpler LLM gateway you can actually audit.

#ai #opensource #security #openai

4 min read

Mar 22

I Was Wrong About AI Coding Assistants. Here's What Changed My Mind (and What I Built About It).

#showdev #ai #opensource #programming

5 min read

surya

Apr 25

Introducing Xim Remote: The Ultimate Free, Open-Source Alternative to AirDroid

#productivity #tutorial #opensource #android

2 min read

Mar 23

State of MCP Security 2026: We Scanned 15,923 AI Tools. Here's What We Found.

#ai #security #opensource #python

3 min read

GPU-Bridge

Mar 26

We Built a LlamaIndex Integration. They Closed the PR. The Code Still Works.

#ai #opensource #agents #infrastructure

2 min read

Deek Roumy

Mar 23

AsyncAPI CLI's Hidden pnpm Bug: A Deep Dive into BROWSERSLIST_ROOT_PATH

#opensource

5 min read

Mar 22

Why AI Agents Need Verifiable Identity

#ai #security #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Max Quimby

Apr 25

GStack: Turn Claude Code Into a Full Engineering Team

#claudecode #ai #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Mar 22

How to Build and Sell Your First OpenClaw Crypto Skill

#cryptocurrency #ai #python #opensource

5 min read

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