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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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Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

How We Automate Lead Enrichment at Beton

#opensource #pricing #saas

3 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

n8n Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

4 min read

Vlad Nadymov for Beton

May 27

Documenso Pricing Teardown 2026

#opensource #pricing #saas

7 min read

May 27

Just released my new Flutter package: smart_player_kit

#ai #flutter #dart #opensource

1 min read

Ryan Smith

May 27

I scanned Dub's codebase. It's not a link shortener.

#ai #webdev #opensource #typescript

3 min read

May 27

Building VOUQIS: How we built the Trust layer for MCP Ecosystem

#ai #opensource #api #startup

7 min read

Syed Ghani

May 31

I built rails-persona — behavioral analytics for Rails with zero external services

#rails #ruby #opensource #webdev

2 min read

matengtian

May 27

I Built 8 Free Browser-Based Developer Tools (No Uploads, No Tracking)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

1 min read

May 29

ComplianceWeave vs Vanta, Drata, Secureframe: Which Compliance Automation Tool Should You Use?

#opensource #python #complianceautomation #tutorial

4 min read

May 28

We gave Kiro a brain for AWS, locally, for free

#kiro #aws #opensource #devops

5 min read

Georgios Moustakas

May 27

LLM API Tokens burning your Bank even on testing ? Not anymore, cuesheet is here to help with that.

#discuss #ai #opensource #claude

1 min read

jxlee007

May 31

Shifting from Mobile to Web: How I Built a 3-Pane Desktop AI Interface with Expo Web & FastAPI

#ai #opensource #webdev #gemma

2 min read

May 27

SightlineAI + Qwen: Building an AI Accessibility Assistant for Blind Users

#opensource #cloud #qwen #machinelearning

3 min read

Henry Y

May 27

I built 51 free browser-based developer tools — here's why and how

#webdev #javascript #astro #opensource

3 min read

May 27

Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge

#opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

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