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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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Jun 22

AI 代理的记忆困境：从「记住」到「知道」

#ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

Jun 22

A Folder Name Is Not a Project Identity

#ai #opensource #devtools #tutorial

4 min read

Jun 22

What people get wrong about agent loops

#agents #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

LucQuebec

Jun 21

FFmpegKit is retired — here's how to fix your Android build (NDK r26c patch)

#news #android #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Francis Isberto

Jun 22

Building for 35k+ Smallholder Farmers

#community #developers #opensource #softwareengineering

2 min read

Jun 22

标题还是你得给一个。我来推一个实用方向。往下看。

#ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

侯垒

Jun 22

AI Agent 出问题时，不要只看最终回答：一次请求级调试的思路

#ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Jun 22

从 v1.0 到 v2.0：一个 Vibe Coding 管线的架构级反思

#ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

Gatt Geng

Jun 22

HelmSharp: render Helm charts from .NET without shelling out to helm

#kubernetes #dotnet #devops #opensource

4 min read

Ran Engel

Jun 21

How I Gave the Android Emulator Real Bluetooth

#android #ios #bluetooth #opensource

4 min read

Jun 22

I Went to Open Source Summit India and My Brain Is Still Processing

#techtalks #opensource #ossi26 #thelinuxfoundation

8 min read

Nikita Rybalchenko

Jun 22

graphlens: a polyglot code-analysis framework that turns your repo into a typed graph

#ai #python #staticanalysis #opensource

6 min read

Jun 21

Agent demos are easy. Agent operations need receipts.

#agents #ai #devops #opensource

1 min read

Jun 21

Building Cleaner Laravel Dashboard Statistics with Laravel Statistician

#php #laravel #opensource #statistics

6 min read

Jun 21

I got tired of writing ifs everywhere — so I built an ecosystem

#dotnet #csharp #featureflags #opensource

6 min read

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