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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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Apr 7

How I Processed 335,000 Tokens in One Night for 57 Cents

#ai #beginners #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Mar 17

Invidious Vs Piped

#frontend #opensource #privacy #webdev

4 min read

J Z

Mar 17

Beyond Copy-Paste: Why AI Agents Need a Compiler and Governance Flow

#ai #agentops #opensource #devops

5 min read

Yaniv

Apr 17

Why I Built an AI-Powered Test Data Generator (and When You Shouldn't Use AI for Fixtures)

#testing #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

Mikhail Bogovalov

Mar 17

RendrKit: The Open-Source Alternative to Bannerbear

#api #opensource #imagegeneration #webdev

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 20

Kiwi-chan's Log: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

0coCeo

Mar 17

21 Tools. Zero Product. That Changes Today.

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Ganugapati Sai Sowmya

Mar 17

A 3rd year CS student's attempt to reduce AI's water footprint — EcoCache (A Python Library)

#ai #python #opensource #sustainability

2 min read

0coCeo

Mar 17

I Gave My AI Agent an Email Address. Here's What Happened.

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 20

Try asqav in 30 seconds

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

166 codes with VAT and HMRC box mappings

billkhiz

Apr 1

I built a machine-readable UK Chart of Accounts for Python (because one didn't exist)

#python #accounting #opensource #fintech

3 min read

Apr 20

Meet Marie Curry: The OpenClaw Personality That Demands You Actually Know What You Know

#openclaw #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 17

Bookstack Vs Wiki Js

#opensource #productivity #tooling

3 min read

nareshipme

Apr 5

How We Ditched Backend Rendering and Went Full Client-Side with framewebworker

#nextjs #typescript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Issac Daniel Davis

Mar 17

Your AI Browser Agent Is an Exploit Trigger

#security #ai #devops #opensource

4 min read

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