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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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Jul 22

Robots-AI: Free Multi-Agent AI Platform

#showdev #opensource #ai #react

1 min read

Omni

Jul 23

No one can afford to slow down, even if caution would benefit everyone. The race is self-reinforcing.

#softwarestrategy #opensource

1 min read

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Jul 27

WAF for CLOUDFLARE

#waf #cloudflarechallenge #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Pavel

Aug 14

I Built an Honest AI Agent to Fight Hallucinations. Here's How It Works.

#ai #tutorial #opensource #node

3 min read

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Ismoy Belizaire

Aug 20

Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose: Unified Camera & Gallery Picker with Expect/Actual and Permission Handling

#opensource #kotlin #android #ios

3 min read

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NocoBase

Aug 5

8 No-Code Tools to Build a CRM（Open Source & SaaS Compared）

#opensource #saas #crm #nocode

13 min read

Trix Cyrus

Jul 27

How to Encrypt Files Online Securely: A Step-by-Step Guide

#news #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Jul 22

Revolutionizing Novel Writing: Introducing novelWriter

#novel #text #opensource #python

3 min read

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Elizabeth Mattijsen

Aug 13

CRA and Open Source

#rakulang #cra #opensource

4 min read

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Sreeju S

Jul 26

Created my First OS - Hello World OS in Assembly

#os #opensource

2 min read

Aug 14

The PostgreSQL Hacker Helper extension is one year old

#postgres #opensource

2 min read

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Peter H. Boling

Aug 25

💎 ANN: kettle-dev v1.0, part 1

#opensource #ruby #tooling #webdev

2 min read

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Aug 25

From Hours to Seconds: Simplifying RuboCop with rubocop-hk

#ruby #code #programming #opensource

5 min read

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Jul 26

Vibe coding an Operating System chapter 1

#programming #ai #opensource #vibecoding

3 min read

Calum

Jul 22

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1753152

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Jul 21

🚀 I Built a Magical CLI Tool That Automatically Generates Perfect .gitignore Files - Here's How It Went Viral

#python #developer #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Calum

Jul 21

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1753130

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Fossa Technology

Jul 21

Build Better UX: Free QR Code Generator for Developers, Designers & Makers

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #productivity

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 21

How Generative Models Misclassify Business Transactions, and Why It Is a Structural, Not Semantic, Problem

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

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Abishek

Aug 24

FOSS United Chennai Meetup

#opensource #exploring #linux

4 min read

Aug 4

🛡️ UHT-Framework: A Modern Hacking Toolkit for Ethical Hackers & Pentesters

#opensource #cybersecurity #linux #termux

2 min read

Jul 21

Scaling Without Limits: Auto-Sharding for the AI-Driven Future

#web3 #ai #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

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Joshua Dimaunahan

Jul 21

How I Made GitHub Open Source PRs Without Login in My VSCode Theme

#github #opensource #programming #javascript

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

Aug 13

🚀How to Set Up a RHEL 9 VM in AWS EC2 and Connect with PuTTY (Beginner-Friendly Guide)

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #cloud

3 min read

ByteKnight

Jul 21

IPFS

#ipfs #decentralized #opensource

1 min read

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