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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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SangheeSon

Mar 29

My friend unplugged my Raspberry Pi — so I built a homelab manager

#go #selfhosted #docker #opensource

2 min read

Waclaw Kusnierczyk

Feb 23

aigent: toolchain for AI agent skills

#ai #rust #opensource #cli

4 min read

Mar 29

Cookie Guard JS: The GDPR/CCPA Consent Manager (No Dependencies, 12.8 kB, 22 Languages)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #privacy

3 min read

Mar 29

How we Built a Free, Anonymous Survey & Quiz Tool — No Login, No Tracking

#webdev #opensource #javascript #buildinpublic

2 min read

David

Mar 29

Run Uncensored AI Chat + Image Gen Locally in 5 Minutes (No Docker, No Cloud)

#ai #tutorial #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Petrus Pennanen

Feb 23

How I Got 9 AI Agents to Work Together Across 3 Different IDEs

#ai #opensource #productivity #tutorial

2 min read

Артем Марченко

Feb 23

How I Built an E2E Encrypted File Transfer in Python — and What Came Out of It

#python #security #opensource #encryption

4 min read

Feb 27

Showcase Your Credly Certifications in Your GitHub README

#credly #webdev #github #opensource

2 min read

RAVI TEJA SURAMPUDI

Feb 23

Project Nylo: An open protocol for cross-domain analytics without third party cookies or fingerprinting

#webdev #privacy #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Feb 23

Warm Introduction

#showdev #community #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

TheDumb1

Feb 27

NeuroSync: An opensource python library for Neural Cryptography

#python #security #opensource #cryptography

2 min read

freerave

Mar 29

I Built a Clipboard Manager for Linux with AES-256 Encryption — DotGhostBoard v1.4.0 Eclipse

#python #linux #security #opensource

9 min read

Mar 29

GPT4All Has a Free API: Run Private LLMs Locally with Python Bindings

#ai #python #llm #opensource

2 min read

Feb 21

Your AI Agent is Coding Against Fiction — How I Fixed Doc Drift with a Pre-Commit Hook

#vibecoding #ai #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 23

Your AI Agent Just Deleted 200 Emails. Here's How to Stop It.

#ai #security #opensource #devops

4 min read

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