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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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Matthew Diakonov

Mar 18

Build a Local-First AI Agent with Ollama - No API Keys, No Cloud, No Signup

#ai #ollama #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Nebula

Mar 17

Top 5 Terminal AI Coding Agents in 2026

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Tucker Schreiber

Mar 18

AI agents are quietly building a tool registry for each other

#ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Sam

Mar 18

Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't See Your API Keys

#typescript #security #ai #opensource

4 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Mar 18

SuperLocalMemory vs Mem0: When Zero-Cloud Beats Managed Memory (Benchmark Analysis)

#agents #ai #opensource #performance

3 min read

Bridge ACE

Mar 17

I Built a Fleet Manager for AI Coding Agents — Here's Why Single-Agent IDEs Aren't Enough

#ai #opensource #devtools #python

6 min read

Mar 18

Free Alternatives to Microlink and OpenGraph.io in 2026

#webdev #api #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

AI coding agents lie about their work. Outcome-based verification catches it.

#ai #opensource #devops #typescript

4 min read

Mar 18

The AI Industry Has an E-Waste Problem. We're Mining Crypto on PowerBook G4s to Fix It.

#opensource #blockchain #sustainability #hardware

6 min read

Alex Chaplinsky

Mar 19

Postman for AI – a tool that has been missing for a while

#ai #opensource #software #llm

4 min read

Mar 17

Omni : Speak anywhere. Act everywhere.

#ai #productivity #opensource #geminiliveagentchallenge

5 min read

Luren L.

Mar 19

I Ran 60+ Automated Tests on My AI Skills Registry — Here's What Broke

#ai #testing #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Mar 18

I built a TypeScript boilerplate for OpenClaw skills — scaffold and publish to ClaWHub in one command

#typescript #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

Bridge ACE

Mar 18

I Let AI Agents Run My Bug Bounty Program. Here Is What Happened.

#security #ai #bugbounty #opensource

2 min read

Mar 18

🤖 Building Advanced Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Systems with OrkaJS: A Complete Architecture Guide

#webdev #ai #opensource #softwareengineering

9 min read

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