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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

The Undefended Industry: How the IT Sector Grew Powerful Without Growing Resilient

#discuss #aws #news #opensource

8 min read

Jun 22

I’ve shipped 150+ PRs and built AI agents in a day - but I still can’t get a job

#opensource #ai #career

3 min read

Kandeepa Sundaram

Jun 22

You Don't Have a Git Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

#git #productivity #devtools #opensource

3 min read

Christopher Maher

Jun 22

Trust the harness, not the model: a weekend of local agents building their own guardrails

#ai #kubernetes #llm #opensource

7 min read

Nat

Jun 22

We Open-Sourced an AI Agent Aiden That Controls Your Phone — No App, No API, No Jailbreak

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

Dyc-lgtm

Jun 22

I Scanned 1,500 GitHub Bounties With an AI Agent — The Public Bounty Market Is Broken in 2026

#ai #github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 22

Your api gateway doesn't need the cloud. Automated Regulatory Compliance Evidence Generation from Cry proves it.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Ephemeral Browsing and Cryptographic Memory Shredding for Fo doesn't phone home. It doesn't need to.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

We solved ed25519 signature security and post-quantum considerations without telling anyone's server.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

I built research - Document 04 ? RAG and Knowledge Retrieval in 2 months. Zero cloud. Zero compromise.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Digital Sovereignty and Self-Hosted Infrastructure is the future of p2p ? and it runs locally.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Why we pay AI to undo the failures of PDFs (Introducing UDS 1.0)

#software #opensource #cryptography #webdev

6 min read

Jun 22

The cloud was never necessary for Local-First AI Inference. Here's why.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

Your p2p doesn't need the cloud. Peer-to-Peer Communication Protocols for Mesh Networks proves it.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

Jun 22

I built Open Source Governance for AI Coding Agents in 2 months. Zero cloud. Zero compromise.

#security #opensource #privacy #research

4 min read

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