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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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Niko Sagiadinos

Mar 19

Open Source Digital Signage: What the License Doesn't Tell You

#opensource #digitalsignage #selfhosted #infrastructure

2 min read

Apr 23

Why after using Mac to do low level development for a week, I switched back to Linux?

#linux #winehq #programming #opensource

4 min read

David

Apr 2

Locally Uncensored v1.5.5 — Zero-Config AI Models, VRAM Detection & Production-Ready Desktop App

#ai #opensource #desktop #machinelearning

2 min read

Low-latency WebRTC and state management

Thor 雷神 Schaeff for Google AI

Apr 13

Build a Talking Robot with Gemini Live and Reachy Mini

#ai #robotics #gemini #opensource

9 min read

Mar 20

The Coordination Problem Nobody Talks About When You Give AI Agents Real Work

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

4 min read

Mar 20

Why Chinese AI Labs Are Going Closed Source: A Strategic Analysis

#ai #opensource #china #strategy

3 min read

Mar 20

Ghostfolio Vs Maybe

#news #opensource #productivity #webdev

4 min read

Olivier Buitelaar

Mar 19

I Built a Free GitHub Action That Catches Workflow Security Issues Before Production

#githubactions #security #devops #opensource

2 min read

Amaan Ul Haq Siddiqui

Apr 11

End-to-End Supply Chain Security for a Go Project: TUF on CI, cosign, and SLSA L3

#security #opensource #go #cloudnative

10 min read

Wu Long

Mar 19

Eight Critical Bugs, One Day: Anatomy of an AI Agent Security Audit

#security #aiagents #opensource #vulnerability

3 min read

Apr 18

Why I built a lossless alternative to AI memory summarization

#claudecode #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Vasyl

Mar 20

How I built an AI that patches code without rewriting files

#python #ai #ollama #opensource

3 min read

Max Fedius

Mar 19

81,000 people said they don't feel in control of their AI tools. I built a linter for that.

#claudecode #devtools #cli #opensource

5 min read

Apr 20

I got tired of copy-pasting the same table code, so I built a library

#angular #typescript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Niko Sagiadinos

Apr 22

SaaS or Self-Hosting? What I Would Actually Use?

#selfhosting #opensource #saas #vendorlockin

5 min read

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