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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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Mar 16

Montana Made Computation a Constitutional Right. Devs Are Split.

#discuss #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

JT

Mar 4

Open Source Local LL Benchmarking and Leaderboards on MacOS

#ai #opensource #swift #apple

8 min read

Mobin Valadi for Kurdistan Linux Lab | تاقیگەی لینوکسی کوردستان

Feb 9

Mastering the Disk: 5 Surprising Insights Every Linux User Needs to Know About Partitioning

#kurd #opensource #linux #kll

4 min read

Yurukusa

Mar 13

I Built a GitHub Action That Catches the 'Did You Mean to Leave That console.log?' Comment

#claudecode #github #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Feb 9

I shipped v0.1.0 of an open source project, realized it was fundamentally wrong, and I’m rebuilding it for v1.0.0

#devops #opensource #rust #buildinpublic

2 min read

Naveen Thangavelu

Feb 8

🚀 Introducing SBP: Multi-Agent Coordination via Digital "Pheromones

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

compsult

Feb 10

I built a picker widget that works with one line of code

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15

Go GUI in 2026: gogpu/ui v0.1.0 — 22 Widgets, GPU Rendering, Zero CGO

#go #programming #opensource #architecture

10 min read

Mar 14

MiroFish: The Open-Source AI Engine That Builds Digital Worlds to Predict the Future

#ai #programming #opensource #python

5 min read

saksh for OWASP BLT

Mar 4

The first step in open source

#beginners #devjournal #motivation #opensource

2 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Seeing what your agents are doing: the task registry problem

#ai #architecture #opensource #openwalrus

5 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Context compaction in agent frameworks

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

14 min read

machuz

Mar 15

Git Archaeology — A Complete Theory of Software Universes

#opensource #productivity #git #career

7 min read

Abhishek

Mar 15

Vectra: A Provider-Agnostic RAG SDK That Lets You Swap Anything Without Rewriting Code

#discuss #ai #opensource #showdev

4 min read

Gopal Yami

Feb 9

Implementing the Agentic Trust Framework: Zero Trust for AI Agents

#security #ai #opensource #typescript

3 min read

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