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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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Vlad Nadymov for Beton

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Windmill Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

5 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

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Firecrawl Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

4 min read

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November 2025 Update

#opensource #pricing #saas

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Temporal Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

4 min read

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May 27

Beton April 2026 Update

#opensource #pricing #saas

2 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

Twenty CRM Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

4 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

Dify Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

10 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

ClickHouse Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

7 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

Metabase Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

5 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

Grafana Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

5 min read

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May 27

Documenso Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

7 min read

May 27

Just released my new Flutter package: smart_player_kit

#ai #flutter #dart #opensource

1 min read

Ryan Smith

May 27

I scanned Dub's codebase. It's not a link shortener.

#ai #webdev #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Harrier

Jun 19

I built an open-source market maker for prediction markets (Polymarket/CLOB) — here's how it works

#showdev #automation #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Jun 10

Caveman mode for AI agents: how 75% token compression survived 5 weeks of autonomous ops

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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