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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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Evgeniy

Feb 4

Digital Archaeology: Resurrecting GTK 1.3 for MSVC 2022

#cpp #microsoft #opensource #ui

3 min read

Mar 10

OS-Level Sandboxing: Kernel Isolation for AI Agents

#security #ai #sandboxing #opensource

12 min read

Kai

Feb 4

We Built a Governance Toolkit to Save AI Projects from the 2027 Cancellation Wave

#ai #agents #opensource #governance

4 min read

Mar 10

I built an open-source S3-native Kafka alternative. Here's how it works under the hoo

#opensource #rust #kafka #architecture

3 min read

Mar 11

From Heartless Systems to Heartfelt Infrastructure Building Obinexus

#decentralization #opensource #humanrights #linux

4 min read

정상록

Mar 11

Awesome-mac: The GitHub Repo I Bookmark for Every Mac Setup (99.8K Stars)

#github #opensource #productivity #resources

5 min read

Mar 10

Agentic Cyber Threat Intelligence

#cybersecurity #ai #opensource #security

12 min read

Jack Del Aguila

Mar 10

Why Every AI-Assisted Project Needs a .agents/ Folder

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

3 min read

Feb 4

Real-time, open source, AI video generation is here and here's what you can build with it

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #performance

5 min read

kalsdjf23

Mar 10

I Turned My Hugo GitHub Style Activity Tracker Into a Reusable Module

#hugo #opensource #webdev #programming

2 min read

Oleksandr

Mar 10

Why I Built a Modbus Simulator After a Year of Testing on Production

#opensource #python #ems #modbus

5 min read

Mar 3

I Discovered An Enterprise MCP Gateway

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

6 min read

Choda Srujan Sai 23110081

Feb 4

How We Built an AI Orchestration Layer with 17 Agents and 61 Commands

#ai #opensource #javascript #devtools

9 min read

Mar 10

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Open Standard Reshaping AI Development

#ai #llm #mcp #opensource

9 min read

Seryl Lns

Mar 10

Building a Rails Engine #9 -- Building the UI with Phlex & Tailwind

#rails #ruby #webdev #opensource

11 min read

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