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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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Meysam

Nov 3 '25

Self-hosting Listmonk: From ConvertKit to €12/month infrastructure

#selfhosted #kubernetes #devops #opensource

11 min read

Dec 7 '25

12 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Nov 15 '25

Federated avatars in authentik

#opensource #tutorial #security #devops

4 min read

Steven Bennett for Anarchy Ireland

Dec 6 '25

🌿 Universal Companion Protocol (UCP) v1 BETA — Public Seed Document

#ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

DASWU

Nov 7 '25

Deep Dive into the JuiceFS Garbage Collection Mechanism

#opensource

9 min read

Scriptor

Dec 6 '25

HTML like simplicity in python GUIs is here!

#python #programming #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Teranes Ranjith

Dec 6 '25

🚀 Best Free & Open Source Flutter Admin Dashboard Template for 2026

#flutter #dashboard #template #opensource

2 min read

Joshua

Nov 7 '25

Building Smarter AI Agents with Schema-Guided Reasoning

#systemdesign #agents #ai #opensource

3 min read

Dec 6 '25

Building 404fuzz: A Multi-Core Fuzzer That Never Gets Tired

#bugbounty #opensource #node #infosec

3 min read

Nov 7 '25

Why I Translate Documentation: Empowering Beginners in Local Languages

#opensource

1 min read

Nov 4 '25

📞 I'm Not a Coder but Used Claude to Build a Free AI Answering Service

#ai #saas #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Nadim Chowdhury

Nov 1 '25

Building Confessly: The Anonymous Confession Platform That Actually Listens

#showdev #opensource #mentalhealth #ai

7 min read

Nov 5 '25

🚀 Introducing @utho-community/object-storage — A Simple, Secure Object Storage Utility for Node.js

#opensource #cloud #webdev #programming

3 min read

Nov 22 '25

I built a self-hosted Google Forms alternative and made it open source! 🎉

#showdev #opensource #programming #javascript

11 min read

NocoBase

Nov 1 '25

6 In-Depth Comparison of RBAC in Enterprise-Grade No-Code/Low-Code Platforms

#nocode #opensource #security #programming

8 min read

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