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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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John McBride for Daily Context

Jul 2

Let Us Be Free

#aie #ai #opensource

3 min read

The hollowing out of the startup middle

krlz

Jul 1

AI Made Code Free. So Why Are the Giants Still Winning? (And where solo devs actually beat them)

#ai #opensource #career #productivity

7 min read

Kandeepa Sundaram

Jul 3

Who Am I?

#git #productivity #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Keesan

Jul 2

Subagent Teams Need Handoff Receipts

#ai #programming #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jul 3

7 Days, 0 Stars — The Honest Open Source Launch Diary

#opensource #startup #honesty #buildinpublic

4 min read

gregor

Jul 2

Should AI Memory Be Stored as Open Engrams or Baked Into Model Weights?

#ai #opensource #memory #agents

8 min read

Jul 2

The Shadow Ledger Pattern: How to Keep a Bank Live on FedNow During Core Maintenance Windows

#java #fintech #opensource #architecture

5 min read

greymoth

Jul 2

Three ways CJK text breaks big open-source projects, over and over

#i18n #opensource #javascript #webdev

6 min read

mage0535

Jul 3

Fix: Load Memory Sidecar Modules from Runtime Scripts in Hermes Memory Installer

#ai #automation #opensource

2 min read

Odejobi Abiola Samuel

Jul 2

ctrodb 1.4: Offline Sync for the Browser, Zero Dependencies

#typescript #database #opensource #react

2 min read

razel369

Jul 2

"I built an AI agent that pays its own bills — and you can fork it for $0"

#ai #opensource #agents #web3

3 min read

Jul 2

I Built a Free Open-Source SEO Checker Tool (Works with WordPress, Showit, Wix and More)

#showdev #seo #webdev #opensource

3 min read

noxlie

Jul 2

How to Connect SillyTavern to a Private AI API (NanoGPT) — Setup Guide

#ai #privacy #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Jul 3

9 AI Agents, 2 CPU Cores, One Gym: The 3-Layer Architecture

#opensource #ai #architecture #fitness

1 min read

Jul 3

We Nearly Published '140+ GitHub Stars.' The Real Number Was 5. Here's How We Caught It.

#opensource #devops #transparency #buildinpublic

3 min read

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