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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 21

Building AI Chat Interfaces is Exhausting. So I Open-Sourced a Solution.

#react #opensource #ai #webdev

2 min read

Ocadot777

Feb 21

Your AI Bot Is Lonely — Let It Talk to Other Bots

#ai #bots #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

openpawz

Feb 24

Introducing OpenPawz: A Native Desktop AI Platform That Runs Fully Offline

#ai #rust #opensource #tauri

4 min read

Feb 20

How We Added AI Summaries and Chapters to Video Recordings

#go #ai #opensource #webdev

6 min read

guanjiawei

Mar 6

Why We Built AIMA: An Open-Source Project for Managing AI Inference with AI

#ai #opensource #infrastructure #aima

7 min read

Ocadot777

Feb 20

BotRoulette: Where Bots Meet Other Bots

#ai #bots #agents #opensource

2 min read

David

Feb 20

Free Developer Tools for Testing: IBAN, IMEI, Credit Cards & More

#webdev #testing #tools #opensource

2 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

Mar 5

I Gave Claude Code a "Phone a Friend" Lifeline — It Calls GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek

#ai #opensource #mcp #programming

3 min read

Feb 20

AppFlowy vs AFFiNE: Which to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #docker #opensource #productivity

3 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

Nextcloud vs Syncthing: Which File Sync to Use?

#selfhosted #docker #linux #opensource

5 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

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