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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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Yanis

Mar 16

The Truth About Weather Data: Why Open‑Source Alternatives Matter in 2026

#api #data #opensource #saas

5 min read

phantomDev

Mar 15

I Built a Web Crawler That Scraped Cloudflare Past Their Own Protection

#go #webdev #opensource #programming

5 min read

Mar 15

Termix v2.0.0 - RDP, VNC, and Telnet Support (self-hosted Termius alternative that syncs across all devices)

#showdev #networking #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Rhumb

Mar 28

MCP Server Scoring Methodology: How to Evaluate APIs for Agents

#ai #api #mcp #opensource

4 min read

Akash Kumar Naik

Mar 15

🚀 Introducing AI Codebase Analyst: Understand Any GitHub Repository in Under 60 Seconds

#ai #opensource #tools #nocode

3 min read

Mar 15

Quantum Computing Might Change AI More Than GPUs Did

#discuss #ai #quantumcomputing #opensource

8 min read

Pritesh Kumar for Dograh AI

Mar 28

We analyzed 10,000 voice AI calls. The LLM was rarely the problem.

#ai #voiceai #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Sangio

Mar 19

Are CMSes becoming pointless now that AI can just code websites? I built one anyway — here's my reasoning.

#discuss #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15

I was tired of writing "fix" as my commit message so I built this in one afternoon

#python #opensource #git #product

2 min read

Ashan_Dev

Mar 19

🏥 gh-repo-health: Check Your GitHub Repo's Health Score in Seconds

#github #opensource #python #devtools

3 min read

Mar 19

Building an Enterprise-Grade File Organizer with .NET and Avalonia UI

#dotnet #csharp #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Alan West

Mar 28

Why Your Local AI Stack Keeps Falling Apart (and How to Fix It)

#opensource #ai #machinelearning #tutorial

5 min read

Mar 15

How to Self-Host Baikal with Docker Compose

#docker #linux #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Hichoi-Dev

Mar 18

I built a dev tool that "evolves" code with AI — REAP

#ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

ShadowStrike Labs

Mar 19

ShadowStrike Phantom EDR/XDR Platform Kernel Sensor (WDK/C)

#showdev #c #opensource #security

2 min read

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