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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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Cristian Cardoso

Sep 26 '25

Configurando MPLS no OpenBSD com circuito VPLS

#networking #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Sep 26 '25

How AI Agents Unlock New Integration Paradigms Beyond Traditional APIs

#api #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

Sep 26 '25

⚡Here Are 5 GitHub Projects Too Cool to Miss

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

T2C for tsquaredc

Sep 26 '25

Model Context Protocol (MCP): What Developers Need to Know

#opensource #tooling #api #ai

2 min read

marcosomma

Sep 25 '25

🧠Building AI Beyond the Hype

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deeplearning

3 min read

OmkarBhede

Sep 26 '25

Keep Your Immich Server Up-to-Date 🚀

#bash #docker #opensource #automation

2 min read

Sep 24 '25

🚀 Bytedocs: A Modern Alternative to Swagger

#api #documentation #ai #opensource

2 min read

Judy

Sep 26 '25

Employees who have accumulated more than 5 years of work experience in New York--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #spl

2 min read

Sep 25 '25

Shadcn Studio - An Open Source Shadcn/ui Library is Here 🚀

#webdev #shadcn #opensource #webcomponents

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Ayu Adiati

Oct 15 '25

Giving non-code contributions the recognition they deserve

#hacktoberfest #opensource #nocode #codenewbie

4 min read

panfan

Sep 25 '25

Kit — A Privacy-First, Cross-Platform Toolbox with 70+ Utilities

#showdev #privacy #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Simmypeet

Sep 23 '25

Building a Query-Based Incremental Compilation Engine in Rust

#rust #opensource #architecture #tutorial

10 min read

Sep 4 '25

CPK: A Philosophical Practice of Returning to the Essence of Software Packaging and Distribution

#linux #opensource #devops #programming

9 min read

Sep 23 '25

Missing in Modern C++? Event Synchronization Primitive — Areg vs STL vs POCO vs Win32 API

#cpp #opensource #programming #multiplatform

4 min read

Sep 22 '25

Solving PHP's Module Coupling Problem: A Journey Into Modular Architecture

#php #opensource #webdev #architecture

5 min read

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