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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).

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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whaiman

Aug 16

Why the "AI" Badge Doesn't Matter and How to Restore Trust in Our Code

#discuss #ai #opensource #writing

4 min read

Self-Correcting Systems

Aug 16

The Suite Was Green. Four Binding Controls Hadn't Established Their Claims.

#python #testing #opensource #security

15 min read

Aug 16

Building an offline CAD tool that can also turn photos into 3D meshes

#opensource #computervision #python

4 min read

Peter Hallander

Aug 16

I measured 7,032 WordPress plugins to find out how anyone gets their first install

#wordpress #webdev #opensource #marketing

7 min read

Aug 16

Granting root privileges to good luck on Linux

#linux #ai #opensource

5 min read

Sanya

Aug 16

agent-authz: Least-Privilege Authorization for AI Agent Tool Calls

#python #security #ai #opensource

4 min read

WreakDev

Aug 16

Introducing Vulnfy: A Lightweight, Multi-Ecosystem Vulnerability Scanner for Your CI/CD Pipeline

#security #python #opensource #devops

2 min read

Volodymyr

Aug 16

A Detector That Only Ever Says "Clean" Proves Nothing

#opensource #devops #testing #claude

8 min read

雷文

Aug 16

I Built DeepRead: An Evidence-First Reading Skill for Articles, Books, and PDFs

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Aug 16

We wrote integrations for two marketplaces and skipped the shared interface

#go #api #opensource #ecommerce

8 min read

Mujuzi Moses 

Aug 16

🚀 Building Spring by Example: Completing the Spring Events Module

#spring #java #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Aug 16

Debt is allowed. Lying about it is not.

#python #testing #opensource #ci

6 min read

Aug 16

How do you catch it when a model update changes your agent's tool calls?

#ai #agents #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Bob Taylor

Aug 16

Pylint Was Too Slow, So I Built Arid

#python #rust #softwareengineering #opensource

8 min read

Li Zhuojun

Aug 16

The easiest numbers to fake are the hardest to catch. That is one property, not two.

#datascience #opensource #ai #programming

2 min read

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