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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.

submission guidelines

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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Shrijal Acharya for Composio

Feb 17

🖐️Top 5 secure OpenClaw Alternatives you should consider 👀

#ai #productivity #opensource #security

7 min read

Feb 19

Cartoon Universe: How to Teach a Diffusion Model Some Manners

#ai #machinelearning #architecture #opensource

4 min read

Feb 19

I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's UI Into an OpenAI Compatible API and Here's Why You Shouldn't

#python #opensource #openai #ai

11 min read

Seryl Lns

Feb 19

Building a Rails Engine #4 — Modeling Import Data with StoreModel & JSONB

#ruby #rails #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Feb 8

From Mycroft and Ansible to OpenVoiceOS: boring installs, easy updates

#automation #opensource #voiceassistant #ovos

5 min read

Felipe Stanzani

Jan 16

Spring Boot 4: Brief Upgrade Guide and Code Comparison

#programming #opensource #architecture #learning

3 min read

Koushikxd

Feb 19

Lingo Bolt: Removing the Language Barrier From OpenSource

#webdev #ai #opensource #nextjs

6 min read

Feb 19

How We Built Viewer Engagement Analytics Without a Tracking SDK

#go #analytics #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Jan 16

Seeking Feedback on Documentation and Guidelines for Img2Num 🦔

#documentation #opensource #cpp

1 min read

DemoJacob

Feb 16

Your AI Agent Knows Your Passwords — Here's How I Fixed It

#security #opensource #ai #openclaw

4 min read

Samanuai

Jan 13

I Built a LeetCode CLI That Tracks Your Solve Time and Saves Solution Versions

#typescript #leetcode #cli #opensource

2 min read

Jialu

Feb 19

MCP Apps: AI Agents Just Became Applications - Here's How to Build One

#agents #mcp #opensource

5 min read

MAHER X

Jan 16

How to Use Uqda Network: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide 🚀

#networking #privacy #cybersecurity #opensource

9 min read

Jialu

Feb 19

GPT Apps: How OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Into an App Platform & How to Build One in Production

#agents #opensource #typescript #devops

4 min read

Feb 19

How We Added Call-to-Action Buttons to Shared Videos

#go #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

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