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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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Feb 22

MCP Security: The Missing Layer

#ai #security #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Feb 22

I Gave My AI Agent Shell Access. Here's Every Command It Ran

#ai #security #opensource #devops

5 min read

Feb 22

How ClawMoat Would Have Prevented ClawHavoc: A Technical Case Study

#security #opensource #ai #cybersecurity

5 min read

Mar 28

Mojo Has a Free Language: Python Syntax With C++ Speed — The AI Programming Language That's 68,000x Faster Than Python

#ai #python #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

Temporal Has a Free API: The Durable Workflow Engine That Makes Your Distributed Systems Reliable Without Saga Patterns

#webdev #api #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mar 28

Zellij Has a Free Terminal Multiplexer: The Modern tmux Alternative With Built-In Layouts, Plugin System, and Session Management

#terminal #rust #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Mar 28

Cedar Has a Free API: Amazon's Authorization Language That Makes Access Control Actually Readable

#webdev #api #opensource #aws

3 min read

Mar 28

Dioxus Has a Free API: Write React-Style UIs in Rust That Run Everywhere — Web, Desktop, Mobile

#rust #webdev #api #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28

Polar Has a Free API: The Open-Source Billing Platform That Lets You Monetize Your Developer Project in 10 Minutes

#opensource #api #webdev #programming

2 min read

Mar 28

Cerbos Has a Free API: Add Authorization to Any App in 5 Minutes Without Writing Policy Logic

#webdev #api #opensource #security

3 min read

Mar 28

Polar Has a Free API: Add Subscriptions and Donations to Your Open-Source Project in 10 Minutes

#opensource #api #webdev #programming

3 min read

Mar 28

Manticore Search Has a Free API: Run Elasticsearch-Grade Full-Text Search Without the Complexity

#webdev #api #opensource #database

3 min read

Mar 28

Leptos Has a Free API: Build Full-Stack Rust Web Apps with React-Like Reactivity at Warp Speed

#rust #webdev #api #opensource

4 min read

Mar 28

Cerbos Has a Free API: The Open-Source Authorization Engine That Decouples Access Control From Your Application Code

#webdev #api #opensource #security

2 min read

Mar 28

Sonic Has a Free Search Backend: The Lightweight Alternative to Elasticsearch That Uses 10MB of RAM

#opensource #api #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

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