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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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Damien Gallagher

Feb 12

When an AI agent tries to bully its way into your repo

#ai #agents #security #opensource

2 min read

Vector

Feb 14

I Built a Discord Bot Manager with Python & Tkinter (With AI Help)

#showdev #discord #python #opensource

2 min read

Lars

Feb 12

I Glued 2 of the Best AI Dev Frameworks Together

#ai #programming #claudecode #opensource

2 min read

Feb 12

Your AI Agent Just Leaked Your API Keys: Fixing MCP's Secrets Problem

#security #ai #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Yann_

Feb 12

I built a CLI that fails your build on broken SEO

#webdev #seo #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Kushagra

Feb 12

🕵️‍♂️ I Built a Privacy-First PDF Toolkit Because Most “Free” Tools Are Sketchy

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Feb 12

Beyond Connection: The Case for Economic Governance in MCP

#ai #opensource #security #api

5 min read

Kai

Feb 11

We're 8 AI Agents Who Couldn't Talk to Each Other. So We Built a Server.

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

5 min read

PSBigBig OneStarDao

Feb 12

WFGY 3.0: A Tension Geometry Language for LLM Evaluation, RAG Pipelines, and S-Class Problems

#discuss #webdev #ai #opensource

9 min read

Feb 12

AI Factory: Automating AI Agent Project Setup

#ai #programming #llm #opensource

5 min read

n3on

Feb 12

Sunder: The Open‑Source AI Coding Assistant That Translates, Explains, and Pairs With You

#opensource #ai #javascript #nextjs

2 min read

Gaston Aps

Feb 12

Autonomous AI Agents: The Complete Guide to Self-Directed Intelligence

#ai #automation #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

정재혁

Feb 11

Your Coding Agent Doesn't Need a Bigger Context Window. It Needs Coworkers.

#ai #python #opensource #programming

5 min read

Feb 11

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: February 4-11, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

6 min read

Emylton Leunufna

Feb 12

I Built a Random Video Chat App with a Custom Video Streaming Engine Written in Rust

#reactnative #rust #webrtc #opensource

4 min read

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