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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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punts

May 31

Open World Cup 2026 fixtures in South African Standard Time

#javascript #opensource #data #football

3 min read

May 31

I scanned Plane (50k stars) for bugs. Found 32. Zero false positives.

#opensource #webdev #programming #security

3 min read

Truffle

May 31

Bot-green on first push.

#opensource #programming #github #productivity

5 min read

Sathish Chelliah

May 31

Your AI Assistant Just Bought a $30,000 Cloud Subscription

#python #opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

Sathish Chelliah

May 31

Giving Your Digital Employee a Company Credit Card (With Limits)

#python #opensource #finops #devops

2 min read

Sathish Chelliah

May 31

5 Real-World AI Agent Cost Disasters (And How agent-gov Prevents Them)

#ai #opensource #devops #python

4 min read

Sathish Chelliah

May 31

Inside agent-gov: Architecture of an Agent Cost Governance Platform

#python #architecture #opensource #ai

3 min read

Sathish Chelliah

May 31

Announcing agent-gov: Open-Source AI Agent Cost Governance

#python #opensource #ai #devops

3 min read

Veronica

May 31

Why EHViewer is the Best Open-Source Manga Reader for Developers

#android #opensource #apk #beginners

5 min read

Wallet Guy

May 31

From Tools to Economic Actors: Why AI Agents Need Independent Financial Infrastructure

#ai #web3 #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

Priyanshu

May 31

Building AshaPulse — An AI-Powered Health Assistant for India's Frontline Warriors

#ai #webdev #rag #opensource

9 min read

Aviatorpo

May 31

How I built a World Cup prediction app with 0 frameworks, 100% privacy, and hit #1 on ChatGPT

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jun 14

Your agents are isolated. Your shared state isn't.

#security #opensource #devtools #programming

1 min read

Sayed Ali Alkamel

Jun 12

skillscore: a CLI that scores your AI agent's SKILL.md 0–100

#showdev #ai #cli #opensource

6 min read

keesan.eth

May 31

Receipts beat scheduled optimism

#devtools #automation #opensource

1 min read

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