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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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Saray Chak for Bawbel

May 22

We scanned 500 MCP servers on Smithery. Here is what we found.

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

4 min read

Jun 4

How I got officially acknowledged as a MusicBrainz Picard contributor

#devjournal #learning #opensource #softwaredevelopment

7 min read

May 22

ToolRouter: Switch AI Coding Tools Freely Without Losing Context

#machinelearning #llm #python #opensource

6 min read

Glendel Joubert Fyne Acosta

May 26

Evidence Beats Claims: Why AI Agents Need Runtime Proof

#ai #multiagent #architecture #opensource

4 min read

May 22

AI-Enabled UAV Ground Control Stations Compared - 2026

#drones #ai #aviation #opensource

8 min read

May 21

How I Built a Visual UI Builder for React with a JSON-Driven Tree

#react #opensource #architecture #materialui

7 min read

May 21

Lint Your Phishing Templates Like You Lint Your Code

#security #javascript #opensource #devops

2 min read

May 21

You Probably Don't Need 8-Bit Quantization

#ai #llm #opensource #hardware

2 min read

May 21

Introducing Bombie: A Drag-and-Drop Builder for Material-UI in React

#opensource #materialui #webdev #react

4 min read

Jason

May 21

Building AI Digital Employees That Work While You Sleep: An Open-Source Approach

#showdev #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

May 21

I built Voice2Sub: a local AI subtitle generator for video and audio

#ai #desktop #transcription #opensource

2 min read

May 21

Research blockchain with post-quantum Dilithium and custom zk-STARKs from scratch

#python #rust #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Amit Singh Kushwaha

May 21

React Ref Synchronization: Fixing Hydration and Mutable Pointer Anomalies

#frontend #javascript #opensource #react

3 min read

53,000+ curated links for security and OSINT

Jun 18

r4b1t_h0l3

#osint #security #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Snailflyer

May 21

Phone control for AI coding sessions is not a tiny terminal

#ai #mobile #opensource #tooling

1 min read

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