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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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Ameer Hamza Saifi

Jun 16

Building OpenLib: An Open-Source Software Discovery Platform Inspired by IMDb and GitHub

#opensource #webdev #linux

2 min read

Jun 16

I got tired of hand-rolling message queues in FreeRTOS. So I built embedmq.

#c #opensource #freertos #embedded

2 min read

Jun 16

8 Regras que Todo Agente de IA Deve Seguir — Constituição DevOS

#ai #opensource #governance #agents

2 min read

floworkos

Jun 16

freeCodeCamp: A Nonprofit Learning Platform at Scale — What It Actually Is, What Works, and Real Tradeoffs

#freecodecamp #learntocode #opensource

6 min read

CodeKing

Jun 16

"My Two AI Tasks Kept Fighting for the Same Mouse"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Nagaraju Nampally

Jun 16

Your AI Cache Is Confidently Wrong — Here's How We're Fixing It

#ai #opensource #webdev #agentaichallenge

2 min read

Chống Chí Dinh

Jun 16

Why Every Computer Vision Team Ends Up Rewriting the Same Video Clip Pipeline

#python #computervision #opensource #ffmpeg

5 min read

Jun 16

Marreta Lang: a zero-ceremony DSL for REST APIs

#showdev #webdev #api #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

How to debug AI agent failures for $0 - VCR Cassette Replay explained

#agents #python #opensource #ai

3 min read

Jun 16

Marreta Lang: a zero-ceremony DSL for REST APIs

#showdev #webdev #api #opensource

3 min read

Mohammd Sudais Falak

Jun 16

How I Built and Deployed 288 Client-Side Calculators in 3 Weeks 🚀

#showdev #webdev #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

NinE X

Jun 16

The exact math that made $40,000,000 out of Polymarket (Full roadmap)

#automation #opensource #ai #javascript

3 min read

Jun 16

Building an Official Performance Baseline for Vix.cpp Core v2.6.3

#cpp #performance #benchmarking #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

I Built a Real-Time Indian Stock Market Simulator in Python — Here's How 📊

#python #fintech #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jun 16

The Brain v1.0 — building open-source workflow orchestration the boring way

#opensource #python #ai #selfhosted

9 min read

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