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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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clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Built-in tools: what your agent can reach

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

12 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Async compaction: the race conditions nobody talks about

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

8 min read

Eduardo Messuti

Mar 26

12 DevOps Tools You Should Be Using in 2026 (SREs Included)

#devops #sre #opensource #infrastructure

5 min read

Feb 21

Building AI Chat Interfaces is Exhausting. So I Open-Sourced a Solution.

#react #opensource #ai #webdev

2 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

What should an agent capability bench test?

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

13 min read

openpawz

Feb 24

Introducing OpenPawz: A Native Desktop AI Platform That Runs Fully Offline

#ai #rust #opensource #tauri

4 min read

Attri

Mar 26

We Built an Open-Source CRM for AI Agents — Here's Why

#opensource #ai #webdev #mcp

4 min read

Pau Dang

Mar 26

How I Built a Node.js Generator with 1,680+ Combinations, Clean Architecture or MVC (Kafka)

#webdev #microservices #node #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26

🚀 L'IA locale en 2026 : Ma traversée du désert (Du Terminal au GPU)

#french #ai #opensource #productivity

7 min read

guanjiawei

Mar 6

Why We Built AIMA: An Open-Source Project for Managing AI Inference with AI

#ai #opensource #infrastructure #aima

7 min read

Mar 24

Update: my Claude Code token optimizer now blocks redundant reads. Here's the data from 107 sessions.

#ai #productivity #opensource #claudecode

3 min read

Heiner

Mar 26

OBS Can't See Your Scenes. I Fixed That.

#obs #lua #automation #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26

K501 - INFORMATION SPACE : AXIOMATIC SPECIFICATION (HEADER-INTEGRATED)

#ai #programming #architecture #opensource

2 min read

David

Feb 20

Free Developer Tools for Testing: IBAN, IMEI, Credit Cards & More

#webdev #testing #tools #opensource

2 min read

Ocadot777

Feb 20

BotRoulette: Where Bots Meet Other Bots

#ai #bots #agents #opensource

2 min read

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