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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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jhansirao botsa

Sep 14

❗Are We Building AI Too Fast — or Just Too Blindly?

#ai #developer #developerethics #opensource

2 min read

Sep 30

Hacktoberfest 2025: Ultimate Guide to Open-Source Contributions & Rewards

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

5 min read

christine

Sep 24

What Just Happened to RubyGems?

#ruby #rubygems #opensource

4 min read

Sep 4

DetectPack Forge: Natural-Language to Sigma/KQL/SPL

#showdev #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Michael Alexander

Sep 23

I Gave AIs "Hands". Now They Can Build Their Own Software.

#ai #linux #bash #opensource

2 min read

Aug 31

Personal Dashboard — new-tab extension with dynamic backgrounds, weather, quick links & daily facts

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Winston Puckett

Sep 14

Introducing: A Go package to reduce err boilerplate

#showdev #opensource #go #functional

2 min read

Aug 31

How to Get a Webhook Online: A Developer's Guide

#webhook #node #javascript #opensource

8 min read

Sep 4

GNU openVBS - VBScript,Reborn

#programming #python #opensource #automation

5 min read

Okerew

Aug 31

Introducing OD

#neovim #plugin #debugging #opensource

1 min read

Dark Tech Insights

Sep 4

The Dark Reality of Open Source: Why Developers Must Rethink 'Free Software'

#opensource #security #programming #developer

3 min read

Aug 31

Stop leaking .env files - try Secretsnap (free CLI)

#security #opensource #cli #programming

1 min read

Sep 22

Actionpackd AI SDK: 2 Lines to Typed, Streaming AI Magic

#ai #typescript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Oct 2

I Built a Free AI Tools Platform with 100+ Tools Using Next.js and OpenRouter

#webdev #opensource #ai #nextjs

12 min read

Sreenath

Sep 3

How a Hackathon Rejection Became 6,000+ PyPI Downloads

#showdev #python #opensource #ai

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Ana Maria | Tecnologia

Oct 2

Minha jornada de contribuição na Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #braziliandevs

2 min read

Sep 30

Solving response Token 25k limit Wall: Introducing mcp-cache

#ai #opensource #typescript #automation

2 min read

Oct 2

Building an Open-Source QMS with Little Web Development Experience

#discuss #opensource #devjournal #beginners

3 min read

Sumit Roy

Sep 22

Zero-Downtime VM to Kubernetes Migration with Istio: A Complete Production Guide

#devops #kubernetes #cloud #opensource

6 min read

Jramone3

Oct 2

MintBridge XFCE v1.0.3 — Toolkit modular blindado para migraciones éticas post-Windows 10

#linux #opensource #xfce #legacy

1 min read

Sep 22

Pairly Weekly Update – Week #1

#opensource #fullstack #webdev #privacy

2 min read

Valery Zinchenko

Sep 22

We're Joining Hacktoberfest 2025 🎉

#discuss #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

Radosław

Sep 3

Maia - Multi-AI Agent Test Framework

#ai #python #opensource #testing

2 min read

Puneet-Kumar2010

Oct 2

🚀 Blink Socket — A Lightweight WebSocket Framework Built Out of Frustration

#opensource #websock #javascript #tooling

2 min read

Aug 30

Cashie Budget Planner

#webdev #planner #opensource #javascript

1 min read

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