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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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mkmkkkkk

Feb 7

x402 vs ACP vs AP2: Why your AI agent needs a payment control plane

#ai #payments #opensource #security

10 min read

Mar 12

How I Built a Verification Layer for Copilot CLI's Multi-Agent Output

#github #githubcopilot #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Hoang Le

Feb 6

🚀 Calling Laravel Developers — Let’s Build a Clean, Extensible ERP (and AI Agents)

#architecture #laravel #opensource #php

2 min read

machuz

Mar 12

Git Archaeology #2 — Beyond Individual Signals: Measuring Team Health from Git History

#opensource #productivity #git #teams

5 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Feb 7

CAP-SRP: Building a Cryptographic Flight Recorder for AI Content Refusals — A Complete Implementation Guide

#cap #veritaschain #ai #opensource

32 min read

Amad

Feb 6

Your AI agent just did 5 things. Can you prove it?

#ai #opensource #compliance #euaiact

3 min read

zhenghaoz

Feb 6

Building a Recommender System for GitHub Repositories

#ai #github #opensource

5 min read

Mar 12

BitNet: Microsoft's 1-Bit LLMs That Run on Your CPU

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #microsoft

5 min read

Bernard K

Mar 12

I Built curl for Modbus

#python #iot #cli #opensource

3 min read

Mar 12

I Built a Free Startup & SaaS Website Template with TailwindCSS

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #frontend

2 min read

SurveyJS

Mar 12

How to Add a Form Wizard to Your Website (React, Angular, Vue, plain JS)

#javascript #webdev #json #opensource

5 min read

Mar 10

I built a VS Code extension that lets you chat with your database - everything runs locally

#showdev #vscode #opensource #rag

3 min read

Abid Khan

Mar 12

🔥 MongoFire — Offline‑First Sync for MongoDB (Local + Atlas)

#mongoose #opensource #mongofire #mongodb

2 min read

Mar 12

Introducing Teatree: Parallel Multi-Repo Development with AI Agents

#ai #automation #productivity #opensource

19 min read

Mar 12

How I built a free HEIC image converter with Rust + libvips

#rust #webdev #opensource #programming

1 min read

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