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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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Apr 22

Auto Generate Skeleton Loaders (No Manual Work)

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Apr 17

Axios CVE-2025–62718: The Silent SSRF Bug That Could Be Hiding in Your Node.js App Right Now

#webdev #axios #opensource #programming

4 min read

Sreethul Krishna

May 10

Building a Scalable Sidebar Architecture in Django Using Decorators, Registries, and Context Processors

#python #django #opensource #contributorswanted

3 min read

cz

Apr 17

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Complete Review: Alibaba's Open-Source Coding Model That Beats Frontier Giants

#ai #opensource #coding #qwen

9 min read

Atlas

Apr 17

The Agent Economy Has a $0 Problem

#ai #agents #opensource #web3

4 min read

Apr 17

I made DuckDuckGo's invisible tracker blocking visible, here is how it looks

#privacy #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Apr 17

Why Apache SeaTunnel Zeta Can Be Both “Fast and Stable”

#ai #apacheseatunnel #opensource #programming

15 min read

Apr 21

Apresentação de ferramenta de auditoria de segurança

#showdev #linux #opensource #security

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Apr 17

Three Core Engine Innovations in Apache SeaTunnel: High-Reliability Asynchronous Persistence and CDC Architecture Optimization

#ai #programming #apacheseatunnel #opensource

5 min read

InfraRely

Apr 17

Your AI Agent Didn’t Fail. Your Infrastructure Did.

#ai #opensource #devops

2 min read

Lyra

Apr 17

Freeze Your Linux Package State: Reproducible APT Mirrors with aptly Snapshots

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

7 min read

Alphasec

Apr 21

A Developer Built an Open-Source Dropbox on a Dare. Here's How to Self-Host It.

#selfhosted #opensource #webdev #devops

4 min read

chh-itt

May 10

Reactive Programming Doesn't Need a Framework — Ownership Is Enough

#rust #opensource

7 min read

Ross Peili

Apr 21

Open Source Contributors Needed for Skillware & Rooms (AI/ML/Python)

#python #ai #skillware #opensource

2 min read

Nicholas Volkhin

Apr 17

Benchmark: XMLReader vs XmlExtractKit on a Real Extraction Scenario

#opensource #php #xml #parsing

8 min read

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