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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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Myke Aneke

Feb 13

Open Source Is One of techs' greatest strengths — So Why Don’t More Developers Contribute?

#discuss #opensource #productivity #programming

2 min read

Feb 12

zkzkAgent – A Self-Hosted AI Assistant for Linux

#ai #opensource #privacy #agents

1 min read

idwispera

Feb 13

An open-source credential manager for AI agents

#opensource #security #ai #typescript

3 min read

Feb 13

How We Built View Notifications for Screen Recordings

#go #postgres #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Feb 13

8 Self-hosted Projects You Can Run at home

#opensource #beginners

6 min read

Feb 13

AI Skills Have an Inheritance Problem (Here's the Fix)

#ai #programming #opensource #claudecode

4 min read

Feb 13

Clawdbot Leaked 1.5 Million API Keys. Here Is What I Built to Stop It Happening to You.

#ai #opensource #security #automation

3 min read

Feb 13

I built a desktop app to replace my 15 terminal tabs and janky startup scripts

#opensource #devtools #ai #docker

2 min read

Feb 13

GDPR-Compliant Screen Recording: What You Actually Need to Know

#gdpr #privacy #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Feb 13

Your AI Agent Forgets Everything. Here's How to Give It a Brain That Actually Thinks.

#ai #security #opensource #programming

3 min read

Kazu

Feb 13

Beyond Lines: Announcing "gosemdiff" – A Logic-Aware Diff Tool for Go

#go #opensource #analytics #refactoring

2 min read

OCLauncher Team

Feb 13

Deploying a 24/7 AI Personal Assistant on Fly.io: The Manual Guide (and the 30-second Shortcut)

#ai #opensource #automation #tutorial

3 min read

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Feb 13

OpenClaw Ruined My Project (And I'm Grateful It Did)

#ai #opensource #devjournal #programming

3 min read

Samuel EF. Tinnerholm

Feb 13

domeapi.io free and open source alternative

#cryptocurrency #opensource #api #github

2 min read

Feb 14

Introducing vidpipe — My AI Video Editor That Does Everything

#opensource #ai #automation #github

8 min read

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