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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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Nishant K

Jun 13

Building a Global Career Opportunity Simulator Using World Bank and ESCO Data

#ai #webdev #opensource #career

3 min read

george

Jun 13

AI Agent Skills Are Everywhere. But Which Ones Are Safe to Install?

#ai #opensource #security #githubactions

2 min read

WonderLab

Jun 13

Open Source Project of the Day (#94): MasterDnsVPN —— A Sharpened Blade Against Censorship: The Highly Optimized DNS Tunneling VPN

#opensource #dns #vpn #network

3 min read

Jun 17

Stop Dumping Your Entire Repository Into AI

#ai #claude #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Valentin

Jun 17

How to Build Complex Rich Messages for Telegram Bots (TypeScript)

#javascript #opensource #typescript #telegram

3 min read

Jun 13

Zero Trust for Home Labs: Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise and Enthusiast

#security #linux #opensource #ids

7 min read

Ken Ahrens

Jun 17

Twenty years of Linux, and now I run my own AI

#ai #opensource #localai #applesilicon

5 min read

Ian Taylor

Jun 13

How I Built an AI Journalist Discovery Engine with Octoparse MCP

#ai #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Mikael

Jun 13

Your agent finished at 3 a.m. Where did the report go?

#ai #opensource #selfhosted #tutorial

4 min read

Jun 13

Mixture of Experts (MoE): what it actually does under the hood, and when it pays off

#llm #ai #architecture #opensource

8 min read

xu xu

Jun 13

The Non-Profit Food Delivery Fantasy: What V2EX Reveals About Platform Economics That Western Devs Haven't Figured Out Yet

#ai #programming #devrel #opensource

5 min read

Alex Chen

Jun 13

How I Fixed Bugs in 30+ Open Source Projects (And What I Learned)

#career #learning #opensource #programming

4 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Jun 17

One-Step Install and One-Flag OAuth for a Laravel MCP Server

#laravel #php #opensource #architecture

6 min read

AIvora Labs for AgentTrail

Jun 13

Why AgentTrail Exists: Building Open-Source Audit Trails for AI Agents

#euaiact #opensource #ai #security

3 min read

Jun 15

wayback-video: Turn Any Site's History into a Video

#python #webdev #opensource #devtools

4 min read

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