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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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Feb 7

How I built an RAG engine for Singapore Laws

#discuss #ai #opensource #devops

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x402 vs ACP vs AP2: Why your AI agent needs a payment control plane

#ai #payments #opensource #security

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Hoang Le

Feb 6

🚀 Calling Laravel Developers — Let’s Build a Clean, Extensible ERP (and AI Agents)

#architecture #laravel #opensource #php

2 min read

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Feb 7

CAP-SRP: Building a Cryptographic Flight Recorder for AI Content Refusals — A Complete Implementation Guide

#cap #veritaschain #ai #opensource

32 min read

Amad

Feb 6

Your AI agent just did 5 things. Can you prove it?

#ai #opensource #compliance #euaiact

3 min read

zhenghaoz

Feb 6

Building a Recommender System for GitHub Repositories

#ai #github #opensource

5 min read

Feb 6

🚀 Bullstudio — A Prisma-Studio-Style Dashboard for BullMQ You Can Run in Seconds

#showdev #monitoring #node #opensource

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 6

Early data modeling for backend teams: migrations first or design the data layer in isolation?

#webdev #devtool #database #opensource

1 min read

Tan Genie

Feb 6

UI-TARS: ByteDance's Open-Source AI Agent Stack Hits 27K GitHub Stars

#ai #opensource #automation #agents

5 min read

Feb 10

Top 5 MCP Gateways for 2025: Production-Ready Solutions Compared

#opensource #ai #programming #mcp

5 min read

Hoang Le

Feb 6

LiteERP - Open Source

#showdev #architecture #opensource #react

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

coder om

Feb 6

I Built a Tool That Turns GitHub Milestones Into Shareable Video Clips

#github #opensource #developertools #indiehacker

4 min read

Feb 19

Your AI Guardrails Fail the Kerckhoffs Test

#ai #security #agents #opensource

6 min read

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