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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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PROXYCLAW

Apr 12

Why Your AI Agent Can't Browse the Web (And How to Fix It in 3 Lines of Python)

#ai #python #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Apr 12

AG2 vs CrewAI: The Complete Comparison (Including the AutoGen Rebrand Explained)

#news #agents #ai #opensource

17 min read

Apr 11

Contribuir al kernel de Linux con IA: leí el hilo de HN y tengo una opinión que no le va a gustar a nadie

#linux #git #opensource #desarrollodesoftware

9 min read

אחיה כהן

Apr 11

I just hardened my OSS release pipeline to 11 layers of security — here's the playbook

#opensource #security #github #npm

7 min read

Apr 12

We built a single score that tells you if a company is worth investing in

#webdev #nextjs #opensource #ai

3 min read

Apr 11

I shipped 100+ free tools on a $5 VPS in 5 days

#webdev #buildinpublic #opensource #javascript

2 min read

维王

Apr 12

本地运行AI模型完整指南：用Ollama在电脑上跑GPT-4级模型

#ai #llm #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

LothbrokX

Apr 11

Building a Custom Browser Engine – Looking for Developers to Collaborate

#webdev #opensource #javascript #python

1 min read

Apr 12

7 Open Source Note-Taking Apps for Privacy-Focused Users

#opensource #privacy #productivity #tooling

5 min read

Apr 11

We Studied Claude Code's Source. Here's How Anthropic's AI Actually Remembers — And Why It's Broken.

#ai #security #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Apr 11

What if browsers were designed for AI, not humans? (My first open source project — feedback welcome)

#mcp #ai #rust #opensource

7 min read

Midas126

Apr 11

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

5 min read

Apr 11

SnakeFlow: I Built a VS Code Extension That Manages My Entire Dev Environment from One Sidebar

#vscode #opensource #devtools #productivity

2 min read

airmcp-dev

Apr 11

A simpler way to build MCP servers — would love feedback

#typescript #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Apr 11

How we turned a 91-action Catalan civic policy document into a remote MCP server

#mcp #ai #civictech #opensource

3 min read

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