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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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李李泽

Mar 2

Every AI tool helps you search. None of them ask: do you know what you're looking for?

#ai #opensource #productivity #cognitivescience

6 min read

sonpiaz

Mar 16

I Built 45 AI Agent Skills for Affiliate Marketing — Here's How They Work

#showdev #ai #opensource #affiliate

2 min read

Kai

Mar 2

How We Coordinate 9 AI Agents Without Losing Our Minds (or Theirs)

#ai #agents #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Apr 5

Open Source in 2026: The Fork Wars Are Getting Ugly

#discuss #opensource #programming #news

9 min read

Mar 2

I Built 13 Free Developer Tools With Zero Dependencies

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 6

I built 3 open-source tools for developers and freelancers — here's what I learned.

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Mar 2

Atlas Paywalled Their Migration Linter — Here Are Your Free Alternatives

#postgres #database #opensource #devops

7 min read

Gotham64

Mar 6

OpenPawz Conductor Protocol

#ai #workflows #automation #opensource

9 min read

Haruka Yamamoto

Mar 25

Seu pendrive também merece um tema bonito

#linux #tutorial #bootloader #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

Why I Built a Reverse-CAPTCHA That Verifies AI Agents, Not Humans

#ai #webdev #opensource #security

3 min read

charm1987

Mar 2

I Built a Memory System for My AI — Here's What I Learned

#ai #memory #agents #opensource

4 min read

zouyee

Apr 5

Introducing llmlite: The First Unified LLM Provider Library for the @ZigLang Ecosystem

#showdev #ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Praneeth Vadlapati

Mar 25

🛡️ Agent Action Guard: Framework for Safer AI Agents

#ai #opensource #agents #openclaw

2 min read

Apr 5

I built a one-line observability decorator for Python AI agents

#ai #webdev #python #opensource

2 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Mar 2

I let my AI agent deploy a Next.js app and it actually worked

#ai #mcp #devops #opensource

3 min read

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