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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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Shayan

Apr 30

I Built a Free ACF Alternative (Wordpress Custom Fields 2026)

#showdev #opensource #wordpress #acf

3 min read

Thanawat Wongchai

Apr 7

ผู้ช่วยเขียนโค้ดโอเพนซอร์สที่ดีที่สุดปี 2026: ทางเลือกฟรีสำหรับ Cursor

#ai #opensource #productivity #tooling

3 min read

Lucas

Apr 7

Melhores assistentes de código open source em 2026: alternativas gratuitas ao Cursor

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

9 min read

정상록

Apr 7

Loopndroll: OpenAI Codex를 절대 멈추지 않게 하는 macOS 앱

#openai #opensource #productivity #tooling

1 min read

Eva Clari

Apr 7

Building AI-Powered Developer Tools: Lessons from Open-Source Projects

#ai #webdev #opensource #programming

4 min read

Gingiris

Apr 7

Developer Community Directory: Where to Find Your First 1,000 Users (2026)

#opensource #community #startup #growth

5 min read

Rupesh Bharambe

Apr 7

I Analyzed 26 ML Libraries and Found a Gap Nobody Fills - So I Built It

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

4 min read

TimechoDB

Apr 7

Apache IoTDB for Intelligent Transportation — Architecture, Core Capabilities, and Industry Fit

#devops #opensource #database #performance

5 min read

Apr 7

What I learned building a solo product

#showdev #buildinpublic #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Apr 8

Can open source outperform proprietary software?

#discuss #linux #opensource #software

4 min read

Abhishek Chauhan

Apr 6

Your AI Agent Is Confidently Lying — And It's Your Memory System's Fault

#ai #python #opensource

4 min read

John Jeong

Apr 7

The Codebase Is No Longer a Moat

#opensource #ai #programming #webdev

3 min read

Apr 7

Clai TALOS: The Self-Hosted AI Agent I Wish Existed

#ai #openclaw #opensource

4 min read

ShadowStrike Labs

Apr 7

ShadowStrike Phantom: Open-Source EDR Platform

#cybersecurity #machinelearning #opensource #security

1 min read

Srinivasulu Paranduru for AWS Community Builders

Apr 8

Introduction to OpenTofu

#opensource #iac #opentofu

4 min read

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