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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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tomato

Dec 21 '25

Local Lock Down Lobe Chat Setup

#containers #llm #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Ajit Kumar

Jan 22

The Complete Guide to Publishing Your First Rust Crate to crates.io

#rust #crates #package #opensource

13 min read

Dec 18 '25

From Ghost to Zulip: Setting Up Zulip Locally on WSL2 (and Fixing Tricky Python Issues)

#opensource #zulip #python #django

3 min read

Yevhen Salitrynskyi

Dec 22 '25

How I built a reliable webhook queue in Rust (retries, idempotency, DLQ, schedules, workflows, real-time)

#showdev #systemdesign #rust #opensource

3 min read

Barbora Klusackova

Jan 22

Devlog-OSS-Finder-01: Git Push Origin Comeback

#webdev #programming #learning #opensource

2 min read

xyz abc

Dec 19 '25

The Only JSON Tools You'll Ever Need: Formatter, Validator, and Share 🚀

#webdev #productivity #resources #opensource

1 min read

Dec 19 '25

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.4

#umami #opensource #testing #architecture

2 min read

Dec 17 '25

Why 87% of Security Findings Never Get Fixed (And How We Solved It)

#security #devops #opensource #devsecops

3 min read

Dec 18 '25

Top 5 Free Open Source SaaS Starters in 2025 (Stop Paying for Code)

#webdev #opensource #ai #saas

3 min read

Vishal VeeraReddy

Dec 31 '25

I Slashed My AI Coding Bills by 65% With This One Weird Trick.

#ai #programming #opensource #openai

5 min read

Jan 8

Why I Rewrote Portage in Go: Introducing GRPM v0.1.0

#go #linux #opensource #programming

5 min read

MATHAN S

Dec 18 '25

MURAL: A Visual Collaboration Tool in the DevSecOps Periodic Table

#devops #mural #programming #opensource

1 min read

Dec 17 '25

🚀 Launching Vyoma Labs: A Research-First Space for Building the Future of the Web

#webdev #programming #startup #opensource

3 min read

Dec 18 '25

DEVOPS PERIODIC TABLE AND RULES HT: HASHICORP TERRAFORM

#showdev #devops #opensource #developer

1 min read

Minimus

Dec 17 '25

New Vulnerabilities in runC Allow Container Escape

#security #opensource #devops #kubernetes

4 min read

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