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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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Harish Kotra (he/him)

Jan 4

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#programming #ai #javascript #opensource

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Sean K

Jan 3

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#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

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Mate Technologies

Jan 3

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#python #tkinter #opensource #productivity

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TabbySpaces - visual workspace editor for Tabby terminal

#showdev #terminal #cli #opensource

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#react #javascript #asyncawait #opensource

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Jan 3

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#opensource #webdev #beginners #career

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Javad

Jan 3

OLSRT now is fully documented!

#olsrt #overlab #programming #opensource

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Javad

Jan 3

OLSRT: OverLab Streams Runtime - The first Language-agnostic Runtime of OverLab Group

#olsrt #programming #opensource #overlab

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Javad

Jan 3

Atoqu - The first Atomic-Qunatum Search Engine ever exists in your system!

#atoqu #overlab #programming #opensource

3 min read

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Tech Refreshing

Jan 18

10 Linux Mistakes Every Beginner Makes (I Made All of Them)

#linux #opensource #devops #beginners

4 min read

SANTHANA BHARATHI

Jan 4

Building a Fully Offline AI Voice Assistant on a Laptop (2GB RAM, CPU Only)

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #deved

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Vigneshwaran Manivannan

Jan 3

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#webdev #testing #opensource #microsaas

2 min read

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4 tabs File Manager for Windows 10/11+ (prototype)

#showdev #opensource #csharp

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Nathan Sportsman

Feb 4

Shadow AI Is Everywhere: Meet Julius, the Open-Source LLM Fingerprinting Tool

#security #opensource #go #ai

6 min read

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Lexip

Jan 3

I built an open-source Android app that switches dark mode based on ambient light – Adaptive Theme

#android #androidapp #opensource #programming

2 min read

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