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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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AI Gov Dev for Aguardic

Mar 20

Compliance Reports Are Not Compliance. The Difference Will Define the Next Era of Trust.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

6 min read

Mar 20

OpenGitClaw – The autonomous GitHub agent that maintains your repos while you sleep

#opensource #devops #ai #automation

2 min read

Shunsuke Hayashi

Mar 20

Your AI Agent Skills Are Silently Breaking Right Now (And Nobody's Watching)

#ai #opensource #monitoring #agents

6 min read

Adam

Apr 23

7 GitHub Repos I'd Actually Use to Find Free AI APIs and No-Cost AI Tools

#ai #github #api #opensource

4 min read

Art

Mar 20

DEVLOG: Building software without typing (Forge STA – Speech to Action)

#productivity #opensource #ai #tooling

1 min read

Smard

Apr 23

I'm not a developer. So I wrote a communication protocol spec.

#discuss #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

为由崎司献上心脏

Mar 21

I Built an OS That Runs Any File Format Using AI — Including Ones You Just Invented

#ai #programming #linux #opensource

4 min read

Marina Kovalchuk

Mar 20

Trivy Scanner Compromised Again: Malicious Code Found in v0.69.4 and GitHub Actions, Raising Security Concerns

#security #supplychain #opensource #vulnerability

8 min read

ppcvote

Mar 20

Maxing Out the Free Tier: 105 Automated Tasks on 1,500 RPD -- A $0/Month AI Agent Fleet

#ai #opensource #optimization #freetier

10 min read

Mar 20

I built a tool that pits 9 free LLMs against your code as adversarial reviewers

#ai #security #opensource #programming

3 min read

siyadhkc

Apr 12

I built a modern alternative to gron using Bun and TypeScript

#typescript #bunjs #opensource #cli

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 23

Kiwi-chan Devlog #007: The Log Jam & The Audit Trail

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Darshan S

Mar 21

What if your AI coding tutor actually knew you?

#ai #opensource

5 min read

Mar 20

Paperclip: The Open-Source Platform That Lets You Run a Company with AI Agents

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

3 min read

Mar 20

Composio: The Integration Layer Your AI Agents Have Been Waiting For

#ai #automation #opensource #tools

4 min read

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