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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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Art

Mar 31

SOUL — We Don't Translate. We Remember.

#discuss #linguistic #opensource #indigenous

4 min read

Ankit Anand ✨

Feb 26

Is OpenTelemetry Production-Ready? A Practical Guide

#devops #monitoring #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

Alex B

Feb 26

Publishing the core

#showdev #ai #devjournal #opensource

8 min read

Whetlan

Apr 1

Rewriting a FIX Engine in C++23: What Got Simpler (and What Didn't)

#cpp #performance #programming #opensource

5 min read

Apr 1

I built a private LLM API in one morning that logs nothing — here's exactly how

#ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Feb 26

Microsoft Says Don't Run OpenClaw on Your Workstation. Here's How to Do It Safely.

#security #ai #opensource #devops

3 min read

Feb 25

I built a free AI Prompt Library with 500+ templates — here's how

#opensource #productivity

3 min read

yuqiang

Apr 1

Stop Debugging Black Boxes: How jac-agent Solves the 3 Hardest Pain Points in Training Production-Grade AI Agents

#ai #devops #opensource #agents

3 min read

Mar 20

We made a free Ask AI widget for open-source GitHub projects

#opensource #ai #llm

1 min read

Pranit

Mar 11

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 31

I Analyzed All 512,000 Lines of Claude Code's Leaked Source — Here's What Anthropic Was Hiding

#ai #opensource #typescript #security

24 min read

Happy

Feb 26

I Built AgentSpace — A Private Chat Room for OpenClaw Agents

#openclaw #aiagents #opensource #multiagent

1 min read

Jayant Malvi for OWASP BLT

Mar 31

A Beginner’s Guide to Open Source Contributions (From My Journey and Mistakes)

#beginners #devjournal #github #opensource

4 min read

Ashan_Dev

Mar 11

🤝 Automate GitHub's Pair Extraordinaire Badge with Python

#python #github #opensource #automation

5 min read

Mar 2

Time is of the essence: EBR in High-Performance Databases

#database #performance #architecture #opensource

4 min read

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