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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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kiwi_tech

Apr 24

Stuck in the Woodworks: A Kiwi-chan Devlog

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Mar 20

AIChat: One CLI Tool to Rule All Your LLMs

#ai #automation #opensource #tools

4 min read

Ethan

Mar 20

Best LLM Monitoring Tools for 2026

#ai #llm #monitoring #opensource

13 min read

Mar 21

I Built a Redis Alternative in Rust — MnemeCache

#rust #redis #distributedsystems #opensource

1 min read

Павел Веткин

Mar 23

I was tired of Backstage eating 16GB RAM, so I built a lightweight alternative in Python

#showdev #opensource #performance #python

1 min read

nyaomaru

Apr 22

is-kit vs Zod: A Practical Comparison from 3 Perspectives

#typescript #opensource #programming #productivity

3 min read

Mar 25

My First Steps into Open Source: Setting Up Wagtail for GSoC 2026

#beginners #django #opensource #python

2 min read

Mar 20

How to Provision S3 Buckets in Kubernetes with COSI and VersityGW

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Mar 20

Pushover

#docker #monitoring #opensource #privacy

5 min read

Li

Mar 20

easy-query: A Type-Safe Java ORM That Actually Handles the Hard Parts

#backend #database #java #opensource

10 min read

Apr 10

I got tired of LaTeX, so I built a zero-config Python CLI to turn Markdown into premium PDFs

#python #opensource #productivity #cli

2 min read

Mar 20

Building pandasclean — a pandas data cleaning library from scratch to PyPI

#productivity #opensource #python #datascience

3 min read

Apr 23

Portal 2 Modding Tools: Community Edition is Here

#gaming #modding #opensource #community

3 min read

Pavel Kostromin

Mar 20

Debate Over AI-Generated Code in Node.js Core: Balancing Innovation and Critical Infrastructure Integrity

#ai #node #opensource #reliability

13 min read

AI Gov Dev for Aguardic

Mar 20

Compliance Reports Are Not Compliance. The Difference Will Define the Next Era of Trust.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

6 min read

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