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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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Rotifer Protocol

Mar 19

The Philosophy of Digital Evolution: When Software Exhibits Life-Like Properties

#ai #philosophy #opensource #evolution

12 min read

Mar 18

🛡️ Protecting Your Code and Methodology in the Age of AI: Introducing RCF Protocol v1.2.7

#licensing #security #opensource #web3

2 min read

caraxesthebloodwyrm02

Mar 17

Your Python API Calls Will Fail. Here's How to Handle It.

#python #api #resilience #opensource

4 min read

Mar 22

I built a Go library to solve a problem Python solved in 2002

#go #networking #opensource #gamedev

6 min read

Mar 18

Personal Finance

#docker #opensource #productivity #tooling

6 min read

kalyanakannan padivasu

Mar 17

pyGAEB: The Python Library That Unlocks GAEB Construction Data

#gaeb #bim #constructiontechnology #opensource

7 min read

Mar 17

I Built an AI-Powered Subscription Dashboard in Kotlin with RevenueCat's Charts API

#kotlin #opensource #saas #ai

7 min read

Mar 22

I built an open-source tool to query on-prem databases and DynamoDB in plain English

#aws #python #opensource #devops

2 min read

Tijmen de Jong 💻🚀

Mar 22

OpenClaw + Openshell sandbox + Habbo MCP + OpenRoute models

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Safdar Ali

Mar 17

Why the Open Web Still Matters in the Age of AI

#opensource #ai #technology #webdev

2 min read

Mar 18

I built Sonder — describe any scene, AI agents spawn and live it out autonomously

#ai #python #selfhosted #opensource

2 min read

Mar 17

We Turned a Dependency Audit Into New ClawMoat Detections

#security #node #aiagents #opensource

2 min read

Mar 17

Building a Network Digital Twin with Batfish, ContainerLab, and Suzieq — A Practical Guide

#networking #devops #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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Mar 17

[Side A] Why BytesIO Isn't Enough — Building a Python In-Memory FS Library

#python #opensource #testing #devops

6 min read

Mar 19

I built a CLI inspector for MCP servers

#mcp #python #cli #opensource

1 min read

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