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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 20

Nextcloud vs Syncthing: Which File Sync to Use?

#selfhosted #docker #linux #opensource

5 min read

Amirhossein Hosseinpour

Mar 6

TunnelGuard: A Free macOS App to Exclude Domains from Your VPN (Split Tunneling)

#macos #swift #vpn #opensource

3 min read

Feb 20

Immich vs Google Photos: Can Self-Hosted Replace Google?

#selfhosted #docker #privacy #opensource

5 min read

Feb 20

Bitwarden vs Vaultwarden: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #security #docker #opensource

4 min read

Feb 20

How to Verify Webhooks in Next.js (Stripe, GitHub, Polar, and More)

#nextjs #typescript #webhooks #opensource

4 min read

Feb 20

Building the First X402 Protocol on Monad: 10 Minutes to Deadline with Dead Hardware

#webdev #ai #bitcoin #opensource

3 min read

Altynbek Orumbayev

Feb 20

At MakerX, we built Kagan — a conductor for your AI coding agents

#python #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Srirajasekhar Koritala

Feb 20

OpenAI Just Validated the Autonomous Agent Category — Here's What It Means

#ai #security #opensource #agents

6 min read

Mantra Dev

Feb 20

I Built a 'Time Machine' for AI Coding Sessions — Here's Why

#opensource

5 min read

Feb 21

Why You Should Switch to Matomo Analytics from GA4

#analytics #ga4 #seo #opensource

3 min read

Feb 20

I built an open-source alternative to carbon.now.sh

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Mar 5

Guardrails deleted, now what?

#security #ai #opensource #go

4 min read

Feb 20

How We Added Slack Webhook Notifications to SendRec

#go #slack #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Mark

Feb 19

I built a hosted AI agent that actually does things (not just talks)

#ai #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Peter

Feb 20

Agorio v0.3: Triple-Protocol AI Agents - UCP, ACP, and MCP in One SDK

#typescript #ai #ecommerce #opensource

4 min read

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