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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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Norberto Krucheski

Feb 26

Hice una app de escritorio para procesar imágenes — sin nube, sin cuenta, todo local

#rust #react #tauri #opensource

3 min read

Feb 3

Why We Built an Open-Source Industrial BLE Protocol (AltessaBeacon

#bluetooth #iot #opensource

3 min read

Salma Alam-Naylor

Mar 3

How to make your first contribution to an open source project

#webdev #opensource

11 min read

Ahmad Zein

Feb 3

Stop Losing Context: How I Made Claude Code Remember Everything

#ai #productivity #claudecode #opensource

3 min read

Kai

Feb 3

Why We Built 5 Agent Kits in 1 Day

#agents #opensource #productivity #ai

3 min read

ecap0

Feb 26

We Scanned the Top 20 MCP Servers for Security Vulnerabilities — Here's What We Found

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

8 min read

Kai

Feb 3

The Bridge Problem: Why Agents Can't Talk to Each Other (And How We Fixed It)

#ai #opensource #agents #infrastructure

3 min read

Feb 26

Why the Boston Metro Map Designer Built Me a Calendar

#javascript #opensource #webdev #productivity

5 min read

ethrpg

Feb 26

I Built a Tool That Turns Any Ethereum Wallet Into an RPG Character — Here's How

#ethereum #webdev #ai #opensource

6 min read

Feb 3

Try out OpenMetaData!

#webdev #opensource #ai #devops

1 min read

Unicorn Developer

Feb 26

How far does lookup see in C++?

#cpp #programming #codereview #opensource

13 min read

Feb 3

🤖 Your AI Agent Just Joined a Social Network Without You (Meet Moltbook)

#ai #opensource #security #devops

3 min read

Dhruv Agnihotri

Feb 3

I Built a Free Auth0 Alternative That Gives You 20+ Routes in One Line of Code

#opensource #authentication #react #python

15 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 26

🇲🇳 Mongolia devs: Add Иргэний үнэмлэх (National ID) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Odejobi Abiola Samuel

Feb 3

Introducing Ctrovalidate – Lightweight JavaScript Form Validation Library By Ctrotech

#webdev #javascript #a11y #opensource

1 min read

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