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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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Mar 10

Designing a Structured UUID v8 Generator for Distributed Systems (EUID)

#java #distributedsystems #opensource #backend

3 min read

Mar 9

Redis vs Valkey en 2026: El Fork que Nadie Pidió y Por Qué Ahora Importa

#redis #valkey #basesdedatos #opensource

7 min read

AATEL

Mar 9

Why AATEL Was Created: A Pact of Respect for Software

#discuss #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Sultan Suleimanov

Mar 9

Decentralized AI in Seven Questions

#ai #decentralization #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

Kai

Mar 10

reflectt-node in 5 minutes: from zero to coordinated AI agents

#ai #agents #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Mar 10

Planka vs Wekan: Which Kanban Board to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

living0tribunal

Mar 9

After 3,874 Memories, My AI Coding Assistant Couldn't Find Anything Useful

#ai #opensource #python #productivity

5 min read

Filip Dorian Pindej

Mar 9

Start a new high quality web app with NETrock! Free, open-source. Forever.

#dotnet #opensource #webdev #programming

2 min read

Mar 23

API layer in Twenty codebase — Part 1.2

#opensource #crm #twenty #graphql

3 min read

Davinci Leonhard

Mar 10

Hunting the "Death Signal": From Occult Hypothesis to Non-Equilibrium Engineering

#python #dsp #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Mar 10

My AI agent monitors Stripe and texts me when I make money in my sleep

#ai #productivity #automation #opensource

4 min read

Kai

Mar 9

How we track AI agent spend across 21 agents (and why you need to)

#ai #agents #devops #opensource

3 min read

Mar 9

PhotoPrism vs Piwigo: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

5 min read

Carlo Luisito Adap

Mar 9

What if your AI coding agent actually learned from working with you?

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mar 23

I open-sourced my Nuxt 3 portfolio. Here's what's inside

#webdev #portfolio #nuxt #opensource

5 min read

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