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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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May 29

I Let an AI Agent Control My GitHub Account for 72 Hours — The Results Were Brutally Honest

#ai #github #opensource #automation

8 min read

May 29

Introducing Electrolite: A Lightweight Open-Source Battery Charge Manager for ASUS Laptops

#news #dotnet #opensource #asus

9 min read

Viacheslav(Slava) Sarzhan

May 29

Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes in 2026

#postgres #kubernetes #opensource #devops

8 min read

CodersAcademy006

May 29

I Built a Local DuckDB Engine to Mathematically Settle Cricket Debates

#python #ai #data #opensource

3 min read

Dmitry

May 29

Вечер на автоматизацию GitHub-ачивок

#github #githubactions #opensource #automation

1 min read

Supreeth

May 29

The GSoC Arc: How I Almost Didn't Show Up to My Own Story

#gsoc #opensource #career #github

6 min read

jordanricky1604-ship-it

May 29

I open-sourced a Malware Families Catalog built on EMBER 2018

#showdev #cybersecurity #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Nasit Sony

May 29

I Built a Production-Style RAG Backend — Focused on What Happens When Things Break

#distributedsystems #mlop #java #opensource

4 min read

May 29

Building Helix: An Open-Source Visual Identity Mapper That Cuts the Noise

#python #opensource #security #osint

2 min read

May 29

Building Helix: An Open-Source Visual Identity Mapper That Cuts the Noise

#python #opensource #security #osint

2 min read

May 30

The Agent That Never Forgets: How Nous Research's Hermes Agent Is Rewriting the Rules of Open-Source AI

#news #agents #ai #opensource

1 min read

Callebe Josué Cantú

May 29

I built my own programming language in Python (Exper Language)

#python #programming #interpreters #opensource

2 min read

May 29

The Beautiful Cube Series Identity That Looks Like Coincidence

#showdev #learning #opensource #science

2 min read

May 29

Concluí o Volume 1 da Stackovia Learning Series: 13 capítulos gratuitos + projeto integrador

#showdev #beginners #learning #opensource

5 min read

May 29

I built an open code health benchmark for any GitHub repo

#opensource #security #devops #codequality

2 min read

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