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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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LazyDev_OH

Apr 13

Gemma 4 vs Llama 4 vs Mistral Small 4: The 2026 Open-Source LLM Picks

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

4 min read

Statistics of the World

Apr 13

I built a free salary lookup tool for the Canadian federal government

#webdev #nextjs #opensource #career

2 min read

fromthearchitect

Apr 12

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 2: GObject in Rust — The Type System Explained

#gnome #rust #gtk #opensource

6 min read

Niklas

Apr 13

AD Pentesting 01: Getting your head right

#forensics #security #linux #opensource

1 min read

Andrew for Koalr

Apr 13

We Scored 28 Famous Open Source PRs for Deploy Risk — Here's What We Found

#devops #github #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 13

trimoji — Unicode and emoji-aware text truncation for JavaScript

#javascript #typescript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Apr 13

I Killed 3 Stub Functions in One Session

#node #opensource #javascript #ci

1 min read

jidonglab

Apr 13

Zero Config, Zero Overhead: The Invisible CLI Proxy

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

2 min read

Michel Osswald for Kontext

Apr 14

Stop losing your research in chat logs 🧠

#ai #opensource #productivity #python

6 min read

Apr 14

Your approval logic is a future audit problem

#python #ai #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Apr 17

I built a minimalist "Museum" for Open Source tools that don't suck

#showdev #opensource #performance #tooling

1 min read

Lucas Guimarães

Apr 12

Microsoft killed VBScript, so I built a custom Go VM to bring Classic ASP into 2026

#showdev #go #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dmitry Prudnikov

Apr 17

GraphRAG: Introducing CoordiNode (Alpha)

#rust #database #ai #opensource

2 min read

zgrguric for XRPLWin

Apr 12

Hook State Converter: Decode Xahau HookState ABI Without the Guesswork

#xahau #blockchain #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Apr 12

Proof-of-Behavior: The Missing Trust Layer for AI Agents

#ai #security #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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