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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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Astrodevil for Entelligence AI

Feb 19

Inside OpenClaw: How a Persistent AI Agent Actually Works

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

10 min read

Tule Simon

Feb 19

I Built a Compose Video Player Library Because ExoPlayer Setup Was Driving Me Crazy

#showdev #android #mobile #opensource

3 min read

Dylan Scott Mickelson

Feb 19

Run Cross-Platform Commands in Flutter

#programming #opensource #flutter #cli

1 min read

Rym for Taipy

Feb 19

Stop duct-taping your Python scripts: Handle Scheduling and Versioning natively

#python #programming #opensource #developers

3 min read

Mark

Feb 19

I built a hosted AI agent that actually does things (not just talks)

#ai #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Feb 19

I Got My First Open Source PR Merged After 7 Rejections. Here's What I Learned About Contributing.

#opensource #github #programming #beginners

5 min read

Feb 19

135K AI Agents Exposed: I Built an Open-Source Host Guardian to Fix It

#security #ai #opensource #node

3 min read

Benedikt Schackenberg

Feb 19

I Built an Open-Source Endpoint Manager Because Enterprise Tools Are Ridiculous

#opensource #devops #sysadmin #selfhosted

4 min read

Feb 19

Open Source vs Proprietary LLMs: The Real Cost Breakdown

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

6 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for goose

Feb 19

8 Things You Didn't Know About Code Mode

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

8 min read

Feb 19

I'm Porting Node.js 22 to a 20-Year-Old Power Mac G5. It's Going About as Well as You'd Expect.

#node #powerpc #retro #opensource

7 min read

Feb 19

I Built a Rust Compiler for a 20-Year-Old Mac (Borrow Checker and All)

#rust #powerpc #retro #opensource

9 min read

Feb 19

What Happens When an AI Agent Understands Its Own Guardrails?

#ai #security #agents #opensource

5 min read

Feb 19

Why Are You Still Using AI to Generate Table Code? 😤

#ai #typescript #react #opensource

2 min read

Feb 19

Your AI Agent Can Browse 6 Social Networks. Here's the One-Liner.

#ai #python #opensource #agents

6 min read

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