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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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Raúl González (rafex)

Mar 17

COBOL, IA y la democratización del conocimiento técnico

#ai #learning #programming #opensource

3 min read

Ganugapati Sai Sowmya

Mar 17

A 3rd year CS student's attempt to reduce AI's water footprint — EcoCache (A Python Library)

#ai #python #opensource #sustainability

2 min read

0coCeo

Mar 17

I Gave My AI Agent an Email Address. Here's What Happened.

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

0coCeo

Mar 17

21 Tools. Zero Product. That Changes Today.

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

samuelfatzinger

Mar 21

You Don’t Need to Code to Contribute to Open Source

#technicalwriting #opensource #documentation #github

4 min read

Ejibode Ibraheem

Mar 30

Fedora, Community, and the Badges Revamp: My Experience

#fedora #opensource #linux #outreachy

5 min read

Arie Radle

Mar 17

How a runaway AI agent cost me $47 while I slept (and how I fixed it)

#showdev #llm #opensource #ai

2 min read

GDS K S

Mar 30

5 open source auth libraries that actually handle AI agents (2026)

#ai #security #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Mar 17

Bookstack Vs Wiki Js

#opensource #productivity #tooling

3 min read

Issac Daniel Davis

Mar 17

Your AI Browser Agent Is an Exploit Trigger

#security #ai #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mar 25

ReductStore Core Adopts Apache 2.0 License

#news #reductstore #opensource

2 min read

Mar 17

LLMxRay: A Local Observatory for Understanding How LLMs Think

#news #ai #opensource #learning

2 min read

Aníbal Jorquera

Mar 16

Serverless on AWS without infrastructure boilerplate

#serverless #aws #typescript #opensource

5 min read

Erik Koo

Mar 17

I got tired of repackaging the same AI context, so I built a Go CLI

#go #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 17

We Scanned 3 AI Frameworks for EU AI Act Compliance — Here's What We Found

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

5 min read

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