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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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Dariusz Newecki

Mar 10

My Constitutional Auditor Missed Dead Code. Here's Why — and What I'm Doing About It.

#ai #python #devops #opensource

3 min read

Mar 10

Application-Layer Defense: Stopping Exfiltration Inside the Sandbox

#security #ai #typescript #opensource

15 min read

Mar 10

OS-Level Sandboxing: Kernel Isolation for AI Agents

#security #ai #sandboxing #opensource

12 min read

liuhaotian2024-prog

Mar 10

Why auditing AI agents requires causal AI, not another LLM

#ai #python #agents #opensource

5 min read

Oleksandr

Mar 10

Why I Built a Modbus Simulator After a Year of Testing on Production

#opensource #python #ems #modbus

5 min read

Alex Picazo Huerta

Mar 10

Why junior developers struggle to contribute to open source

#showdev #beginners #github #opensource

2 min read

Mar 10

Trackless Links: Building a Safari Extension for Automatic URL Cleaning

#showdev #privacy #safari #opensource

2 min read

Mar 10

Why AI Agents Need Zero Trust Identity (and How to Build It)

#showdev #ai #security #opensource

7 min read

kalsdjf23

Mar 10

I Turned My Hugo GitHub Style Activity Tracker Into a Reusable Module

#hugo #opensource #webdev #programming

2 min read

GDS K S

Mar 10

I Tested Every Open-Source Brand SVG Library So You Don't Have To (2026 Edition)

#opensource #webdev #svg #javascript

8 min read

Mar 10

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Open Standard Reshaping AI Development

#ai #llm #mcp #opensource

9 min read

Michael Rawls, Jr.

Mar 10

I built a CLI to fix the encoding/newline/whitespace noise that pollutes your diffs

#python #codequality #opensource #cli

5 min read

Mar 10

I replaced a 50-node n8n workflow with a proper app — and open-sourced it

#webdev #opensource #automation #n8n

1 min read

Jack Del Aguila

Mar 10

Why Every AI-Assisted Project Needs a .agents/ Folder

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

3 min read

Mar 10

Stripe's x402 Is Live - Here's the Open-Source SDK That Makes It Dead Simple

#x402 #ai #payments #opensource

3 min read

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