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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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freerave

Mar 25

I Built a Clipboard Manager for Kali Linux — And Learned Way More Than Expected

#python #linux #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Glen Yu for Google Developer Experts

Mar 24

Implementing a RAG system: Crawl

#rag #genai #opensource #adk

5 min read

Liz Acosta for Vonage Developers

Mar 25

The Vonage Dev Discussion: Open Source

#discuss #opensource #womenintech

1 min read

Akinshola Samuel AKINDE

Mar 25

Bridging Fintech and Agentic AI: Building a Paystack MCP Server in Python

#python #ai #api #opensource

4 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 25

Introducing @rotifer/mcp-server: Give Any AI Agent Access to the Gene Ecosystem

#ai #mcp #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 207: 207 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Economics of Autonomous AI Survival

#ai #opensource #survival #productivity

4 min read

Mar 25

I built Polyphon — put Claude, GPT, Gemini, and local models in the same conversation and let them respond to each other

#opensource #ai #electron #productivity

1 min read

Mar 25

Linux still doesn’t understand developers. So I built a GNOME extension that does.

#showdev #linux #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Praneeth Vadlapati

Mar 25

🛡️ Agent Action Guard: Framework for Safer AI Agents

#ai #opensource #mcp #agents

2 min read

Mar 25

How I Got Multiple AI Coding Agents to Stop Stepping on Each Other

#opensource #ai #typescript #mcp

2 min read

Mar 25

Beyond GitHub Stars: Tracking Real Adoption of My Open-Source Projects

#opensource #github #devops #rust

3 min read

Marcin Parśniak

Mar 25

Finovara - Building a Simple Chatbot in Spring Boot

#java #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Greg Lind

Mar 25

Building a Network of AI-Native CTOs

#ai #startup #opensource #leadership

3 min read

Oleksander

Mar 25

Google's TurboQuant solves half the AI memory problem. Here's the other half.

#ai #rust #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Mar 25

I got tired of configuring the same stack over and over, so I built a modular project assembler

#webdev #typescript #node #opensource

3 min read

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