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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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Mar 20

DataVyn Labs Ollama Agents multi-model AI chat workspace

#ai #webdev #python #opensource

1 min read

OpenNews

Mar 19

I Built a News App That Runs AI Entirely in Your Browser — Here's How

#javascript #react #ai #opensource

4 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

Rotifer v0.5: AI Skills Become Portable Genes with Reputation

#ai #webassembly #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 20

Apache SeaTunnel 2.3.13 Major Release! Top 10 Features You Should Know

#apacheseatunnel #release #datascience #opensource

5 min read

Eastkap

Mar 19

I built a budget tracker in a weekend — here's what I learned about why people hate finance apps

#javascript #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Niko Sagiadinos

Mar 19

Open Source Digital Signage: What the License Doesn't Tell You

#opensource #digitalsignage #selfhosted #infrastructure

2 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

Rotifer v0.4: Cloud Binding — Genes Can Now Travel Across Developers

#ai #webassembly #opensource #devtools

1 min read

Mar 20

CloudDev v0.2.0 — SNS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch Logs and more!

#go #aws #opensource #devops

1 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 20

Rotifer v0.3: TypeScript WASM — Zero-Barrier Gene Authoring

#ai #typescript #webassembly #opensource

2 min read

Mar 20

The Coordination Problem Nobody Talks About When You Give AI Agents Real Work

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

4 min read

Mar 20

Why Chinese AI Labs Are Going Closed Source: A Strategic Analysis

#ai #opensource #china #strategy

3 min read

Mar 20

Ghostfolio Vs Maybe

#news #opensource #productivity #webdev

4 min read

Olivier Buitelaar

Mar 19

I Built a Free GitHub Action That Catches Workflow Security Issues Before Production

#githubactions #security #devops #opensource

2 min read

Wu Long

Mar 19

Eight Critical Bugs, One Day: Anatomy of an AI Agent Security Audit

#security #aiagents #opensource #vulnerability

3 min read

Vasyl

Mar 20

How I built an AI that patches code without rewriting files

#python #ai #ollama #opensource

3 min read

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