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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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Mohamed Amine Abla

Mar 7

Why we built ConvertIno: Free, unlimited, and no strings attached

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Mar 6

Navidrome vs Airsonic: Which Music Server?

#selfhosted #opensource #devops #homelab

4 min read

Mar 6

From Zero to 140 Features: How I Built a Cloud SOC Platform as a Solo Developer

#cybersecurity #ai #startup #opensource

4 min read

Mar 7

I built flash-pkg — fix slow pip/npm installs on slow internet

#programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Mar 6

I Just Became an AWS Community Builder … And I Owe It to You

#gratitude #aws #opensource #cloudcomputing

4 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Mar 6

What is Engineer persona?

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #kubernetes

7 min read

Thousand Miles AI

Mar 6

How DeepSeek R1 Shocked the World (And Why It Matters to You)

#ai #opensource #technology

9 min read

Ntty

Mar 6

552 Retro Game Sounds for Your AI Coding Agent — DuckTales, Castlevania, Mega Man and 60 More Packs

#ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 6

.agents/skills folder in Lobehub codebase - Part 1.1

#opensource #agents #skills #ai

3 min read

Kyle

Mar 6

I compiled 459 landlord-tenant statutes into a database and built free tools on top of it

#webdev #opensource #javascript #sideprojects

3 min read

WonderLab

Mar 6

OpenClaw Deep Dive (6): Node Host, Canvas, and Sub-Agents

#ai #openclaw #opensource #agents

7 min read

Mar 6

JuiceToast v1.4.4 Pack 0

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 7

MCP Server Testing Is Fragmented. I Built One CLI for Record, Replay, Mock, Audit, and CI

#ai #opensource #mcp

4 min read

Alexander Schneider

Mar 6

adanos-cli: Stock & Crypto Sentiment Straight From Your Terminal

#python #cli #finance #opensource

4 min read

Mar 6

Iqonga - AI Agent Framework - Open-Source

#showdev #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

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