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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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Max

Mar 13

Why I don't use a vector database

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Dan Evans

Mar 13

I built a framework that gives Claude Code 11 specialist agents and structured multi-agent review

#ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

tommy

Mar 18

How I Grew My Developer Tool Suite to 175 MAU in 3 Weeks — Zero Ad Spend, Articles Only

#webdev #opensource #productivity #beginners

5 min read

Mar 13

Why asking LLMs to generate React/Nested code is a dead end for Agent UI

#ai #opensource #productivity #react

4 min read

Mar 13

We Built a Governance CLI for Multi-Agent AI (And Published It to npm)

#ai #cli #mcp #opensource

2 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 27

I Built a Free Supplement Interaction Checker — Here's What I Learned About Dangerous Combinations

#health #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Thanawat Wongchai

Apr 17

วิธีตัดต่อวิดีโอด้วย AI ขั้นเทพ HyperFrames

#agents #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 16

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Marcin Parśniak

Apr 16

How I Designed a Scalable Notification System with JSON Polymorphism in Spring Boot - Finovara

#programming #java #opensource #api

2 min read

Apr 16

Dear Diary, Love Claude Code.

#claude #ai #opensource #devjournal

5 min read

Emre Demir

Apr 17

Video bearbeiten mit KI: HyperFrames für die Videobearbeitung

#agents #ai #javascript #opensource

8 min read

Baha Eddin Mselmi

Mar 13

How I built a PII anonymization gateway for LLMs (and why every EMEA developer needs one)

#python #rag #privacy #opensource

3 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 16

Challenge 1: The Learning Curve Feels Endless (and Unclear)

#discuss #beginners #opensource #devex

3 min read

Art

Mar 13

Preface – You Are Already There

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 14

How I Automated My Blender Game Asset Pipeline with Custom Python Addons

#blender #gamedev #python #opensource

3 min read

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