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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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Jun 22

There is no patch for cloud api gateway. Only Multi-Agent Deliberation Architecture for Sovereign AI Decis.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

3 min read

benjamin

Jun 22

I kept shipping version mismatches — so I built a zero-dep CLI that checks all three sources at once

#showdev #devops #cli #opensource

3 min read

Jun 22

The cloud was never necessary for Research Overview. Here's why.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

3 min read

Tom Lee

Jun 22

Six Months of the Identity Layer: Why Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI All Made the Same Bet

#ai #agents #identity #opensource

6 min read

Jun 22

We redesigned three-layer contradiction detection in enterprise knowledge from scratch ? no cloud, no black boxes.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

We built P2P Browser Synchronization with CRDT-Based Conflict Resolut so you never have to trust anyone.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Every vector search company builds on rented land. P2P Mesh Synchronization doesn't.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

We built Cryptographic Notarization Across Independent Ledgers so you never have to trust anyone.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Varad J

Jun 22

How I turned my AI CLI into an autonomous agent with Playwright and Sub-agents 🚀

#opensource #ai #agents #python

3 min read

EvanLin | Contorium

Jun 22

Building a Shared Intelligence Layer for AI Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #mcp #programming

1 min read

Mininglamp

Jun 22

When AI Agents Start Working Together: Three Challenges No One Talks About

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #architecture

5 min read

Solidus Network

Jun 22

"Sign in with Google" as the surveillance default — and the alternative civics

#opensource #identity #blockchain #web3

3 min read

nwnwnw413

Jun 22

codex fixing codex: a consensus loop that argues, judges, and merges its own PRs

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

5 min read

Hex

Jun 22

I gave a fresh model only my tool descriptions and watched it mis-route my own users

#mcp #ai #testing #opensource

5 min read

Abdullah Al Adnan

Jun 22

Stop Paying Per Message — Send WhatsApp Messages Free With Your Own API

#whatsapp #api #opensource #selfhosted

4 min read

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