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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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Yousef

Oct 23 '25

Synthetic Attributes in Rhino

#webdev #opensource #ruby #rails

4 min read

Frank Boucher ☁

Nov 27 '25

Ask AI from Anywhere: No GUI, No Heavy Clients, No Friction

#ai #tools #linux #opensource

5 min read

Carlos Eduardo Git

Nov 24 '25

JSSON (JavaScript Simplied Object Notation)

#json #opensource

4 min read

Olawale Bashiru

Nov 12 '25

How I Built a Tiny Tool That Makes Responsive Design Feel Effortless

#frontend #javascript #css #opensource

5 min read

Oct 21 '25

@spexop/react v0.3.1: Building with Primitives-First Philosophy

#react #typescript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Suvorov

Nov 15 '25

Position-Candidate-Hypothesis (PCH) Paradigm: A New Research Direction for NP-Complete Problems

#computerscience #algorithms #coding #opensource

2 min read

Arjun

Oct 22 '25

Rowboat: The open-source alternative to Notion's new custom agents with native MCP support

#ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

perber

Oct 26 '25

LeafWiki - Finding Clarity in Open Source

#markdown #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Nakul Dev

Oct 23 '25

N8N: Automate Anything Without Losing Your Mind

#opensource #tooling #automation #productivity

1 min read

Oct 22 '25

Need open source project contributors for my public work-performance record platform

#webdev #opensource #node #javascriptlibraries

1 min read

Oct 22 '25

I improved the Developer Experience of Litmus Documentation

#discuss #opensource #litmuschaos

3 min read

Glen Baker

Nov 23 '25

Rethinking Code Quality Analysis

#rust #codequality #testing #opensource

8 min read

Andres B.

Oct 21 '25

Feedback wanted for VDI open source project

#virtualmachine #opensource #programming

2 min read

nchika

Nov 23 '25

Building Tornago: A Go Library for Tor Integration Born from Fraud Prevention Needs

#showdev #opensource #go #tor

8 min read

marcosomma

Nov 25 '25

Reasoning In The Wild: How I Actually Think About Cognition

#ai #rag #programming #opensource

10 min read

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