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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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Peter H. Boling

Feb 6

Hostile Takeover of RubyGems: My Thoughts

#opensource #ruby #rails #governance

4 min read

Feb 6

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 6

Part 2 | The Core Abstraction Model of Apache DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming #datascience

4 min read

Yuval

Feb 6

I Made My Claude AI Agents Invent Their Own Language. It Cut Token Costs by 63%.

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

6 min read

Feb 5

SendGate — self-hosted open-source alternative to ZeroBounce / MillionVerifier

#emailvalidation #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Feb 6

OSIRIS a vendor-neutral JSON format for infrastructure snapshots (IT/OT)

#json #infrastructure #documentation #opensource

3 min read

Feb 6

How I Built an MCP Server That Lets Claude Code Talk to Every LLM I Pay For

#ai #mcp #opensource #tooling

5 min read

Hadil Ben Abdallah

Feb 6

LiteLLM vs Bifrost: Comparing Python and Go for Production LLM Gateways

#llm #go #python #opensource

7 min read

Yang ella

Feb 6

0元搭建7 24h AI助手：OpenClaw云服务器部署完全指南

#ai #cloud #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Feb 6

Pre-Execution Governance for AI Agents: Why Your MCP Server Needs a Gatekeeper

#mcp #ai #opensource #governance

6 min read

Feb 6

Introducing pybgworker — A Lightweight Python Background Worker Without Redis or RabbitMQ

#webdev #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

Bukhari bin mahmoud Kibuka

Feb 5

How I Compiled 647 Semgrep Rules to Native Rust

#rust #security #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Feb 5

TableCraft: From 5 Hours to 5 Minutes for Production-Ready Table APIs

#opensource #postgres #githubchallenge #githubcopilot

4 min read

Feb 5

We Tried to Build Analytics Without a Database. It Sort of Worked.

#programming #opensource #database #tutorial

3 min read

Feb 6

Day 5: The Guidance arrives... Finally!

#devjournal #opensource

4 min read

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