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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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Feb 6

4 tabs File Manager for Windows 10/11+ (prototype)

#showdev #opensource #csharp

1 min read

Nathan Sportsman

Feb 4

Shadow AI Is Everywhere: Meet Julius, the Open-Source LLM Fingerprinting Tool

#security #opensource #go #ai

6 min read

Lexip

Jan 3

I built an open-source Android app that switches dark mode based on ambient light – Adaptive Theme

#android #androidapp #opensource #programming

2 min read

Feb 7

I shipped a fix. The PR got closed. And that’s exactly how open source works sometimes 🙂

#opensource #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #contributorswanted

2 min read

Vesi Staneva for SashiDo.io

Feb 2

How Vibe Coding Drains Open Source

#ai #opensource #programming #productivity

9 min read

Jan 3

AurFlow v1.0 — Open-Source Solana RPC Load Balancer

#rust #blockchain #docker #opensource

1 min read

Christian Wagner

Jan 2

Stop Manually Tracing Azure Synapse Dependencies

#database #sql #opensource #dataengineering

1 min read

Gaurav Chile | InfraForgeLabs

Jan 3

DevOpsMind Deep-Dive

#devops #opensource #automation #linux

1 min read

fmerian

Jan 27

🔴 Live: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

#showdev #ai #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Marko

Jan 27

Spring CRUD Generator: a YAML/JSON-driven Spring Boot backend generator (version update + stability improvements)

#java #springboot #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Ola Prøis

Feb 7

I Built a Full Project Management App in 2 days Using Claude 4.6

#showdev #rust #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Jan 2

Training GitHub Repository Embeddings using Stars

#webdev #ai #webassembly #opensource

8 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 2

DVP: Why Autonomous Vehicles Need an AI Flight Recorder

#ai #automation #opensource

7 min read

Jan 3

Networking Mistakes That Cost Me 6 Months

#marketing #networking #career #opensource

3 min read

Stefan Zipproth

Jan 5

I built a C++ Reasoning Engine that holds 1.7TB of Knowledge in RAM – zelph v0.9.2

#cpp #algorithms #wikidata #opensource

3 min read

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