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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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Anthony

Jan 23

A Lightning-Fast ngrok Alternative in Go

#go #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Feb 8

Death by Yes

#discuss #linux #security #opensource

5 min read

Astrodevil

Feb 22

WebMCP: A Browser-Native Execution Model for AI Agents

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Jan 25

Linux for Data Engineers: From Terminal to Text Editing

#linux #dataengineering #opensource

16 min read

Feb 23

I Built a File Converter That Never Uploads Your Files — Here's How

#webdev #javascript #privacy #opensource

5 min read

zo Aoo

Feb 3

40GB of Bot Traffic Later: I'm Open Sourcing 8,000+ n8n Workflows 🚀

#opensource #webdev #automation

3 min read

Selvacanabady P

Feb 24

Digital Freedom and the Architecture of Social Media

#socialmedia #fediverse #opensource #digitalfreedom

3 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Feb 23

The GSOC Trojectory: From first line of code to the final commit

#googlesummerofcode2026 #gsoc2026 #productivity #opensource

4 min read

ihsan oral

Jan 21

Özgürlüğün Binbir Yüzü: Linux Dağıtımlarını Anlamak

#beginners #learning #linux #opensource

8 min read

Feb 24

What Is OpenClaw AI in 2026? A Practical Guide for Developers

#laravel #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Shahid Foy

Feb 24

How to Send Discord Webhook Alerts in Java (Spring Boot Example)

#java #discord #springboot #opensource

3 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Jan 19

Building an Engine to See Programming Differently

#kitwork #programming #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Cyber Audio Mind

Feb 24

I built a zero-dependency alternative to GitNexus for AI-assisted coding

#typescript #ai #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

SatStack

Feb 24

From Zero to RustChain Miner in 10 Minutes — Proof-of-Antiquity Explained

#blockchain #python #crypto #opensource

3 min read

Coroot

Jan 20

How to make GPUs on Kubernetes Observable

#kubernetes #ai #devops #opensource

5 min read

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