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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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Mar 25

We just launched the new LibreFang website

#opensource #rust #ai #webdev

2 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Mar 25

VCP v1.1: Building a Flight Recorder for the SaaSpocalypse — Three-Layer Cryptographic Audit Trails for Algorithmic Trading

#cryptography #fintech #opensource #veritaschain

12 min read

Priyanshu Vishwakarma

Mar 28

I scanned Google.com for quantum vulnerabilities — they're already deploying post-quantum crypto (but it's not enough)

#opensource #security #go #quantum

1 min read

Harry Yan

Mar 25

I got bored vibe coding alone, so I built a terminal chat to do it with my team

#ai #vibecoding #opensource #cli

2 min read

Mar 25

Dynacat 2.0.0 Released: Promoting Adoption of Glance Fork with Enhanced Features and Performance

#opensource #mediamanagement #fork #performance

8 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 24

Gasless AI Agents with ERC-4337 Account Abstraction

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Skila AI

Mar 25

OpenClaw vs NemoClaw: How Open-Source Agents Are Commoditizing the $100B LLM Market

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #webdev

2 min read

Jeremy Longshore

Mar 25

From GitHub Repos to Published Education: Transforming Hidden Documentation into 31KB of Live Content

#contentstrategy #educationalcontent #documentation #opensource

5 min read

Wanda

Mar 25

How to Use OpenClaw with WeChat for Free?

#ai #openclaw #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Ambar

Mar 24

I built a simulator that runs AI regulations through 10,000 agents and shows you how many comply, relocate, and who evades

#showdev #opensource #ai #swarmintelligence

1 min read

Jeremy Longshore

Mar 25

How to Get Your ADK Agent into Google's Official Community Showcase

#adk #googlecloud #vertexai #opensource

2 min read

nasuy

Mar 24

"The human might be asleep." One line in Karpathy's program.md started 100 automatic experiments per night.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #agents

4 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Mar 26

Reconstructing the SaaSpocalypse in Code: What VCP v1.1 Audit Trails Would Have Captured

#cryptography #fintech #opensource #veritaschain

13 min read

Jay Grider

Mar 24

Introducing L-BOM and GUI-BOM

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Nahrin

Mar 24

I built a LinkedIn network analyzer in 6 days using science from 1973. Here's what I found.

#opensource #career #javascript #buildinpublic

1 min read

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