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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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Jan 4

Linus Torvalds Gets Candid About Windows, Workflows, and AI

#linux #microsoft #windows #opensource

1 min read

Morcules

Jan 4

I made a unique compiled programming language in Rust without LLVM

#opensource #rust #github

1 min read

Dan Shalev

Jan 5

Text2SQL on xxxx's of tables?

#sql #falkordb #opensource

1 min read

Nishal K

Feb 8

I built a Carbon Footprint tracker for my code (using Tauri?!) 🍃

#opensource #react #javascript #cleancode

2 min read

Chris M. Pérez

Feb 8

Tagix: My Experimental State Management Library

#webdev #beginners #opensource #typescript

10 min read

Metehan Yurtseven

Jan 3

The silent revolution in Linux? Historical maintainer analysis shows Nix +264%, AUR +100%, while Debian barely grows (+2.3%)

#discuss #linux #opensource #development

1 min read

Ovi ren

Feb 8

i built runtexts - a cli tool for automating message sending

#showdev #python #opensource #node

2 min read

nagasatish chilakamarti

Feb 8

Introducing TealTiger: AI Security & Cost Control Made Simple

#ai #security #opensource #python

5 min read

Yasser Elgammal

Jan 18

Introducing a Rate Limiter Library for Go

#go #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

Harish Kotra (he/him)

Jan 4

Build Your Own Local AI Agent (Part 1): The Desktop Tidy-Up 🧹

#programming #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sean K

Jan 3

Memento: Give Claude Code Persistent Memory So You Stop Repeating Yourself

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mate Technologies

Jan 3

FileMate Pro – Next-Gen File Explorer in Python 🗂️✨

#python #tkinter #opensource #productivity

8 min read

Feb 8

Building an HTTP Header Analyser in Python:

#webdev #security #python #opensource

3 min read

Jan 3

TabbySpaces - visual workspace editor for Tabby terminal

#showdev #terminal #cli #opensource

1 min read

Feb 7

From CLI to GitHub Bot: Building a Code Management AI for Python

#python #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

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