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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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Muhammad Zubair Bin Akbar

Apr 22

Top 10 Slurm Mistakes That Kill Cluster Performance

#performance #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

강래민

Mar 19

I Built a MITM Proxy to See What Claude Code Actually Sends to Anthropic

#claude #ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Michael Steuer for Casper Blockchain

Mar 19

Opening the Playbook: Why We're Open-Sourcing Casper's Core DeFi Infrastructure

#blockchain #opensource #web3

9 min read

AI Gov Dev for Aguardic

Mar 19

AIUC-1 Is the SOC 2 for AI Agents. Here's What It Covers and Why It Matters.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

6 min read

Abhiram

Mar 19

IndiaFoss Banglore Journey

#news #opensource #indiafoss #learning

3 min read

Apr 22

Low-Latency Model Router: Automatic LLM Selection Across OpenRouter

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

5 min read

Mar 19

MCP Is Dead. Long Live MCPS.

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Apr 18

Brain, Explained

#ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Mar 20

Spacebot: The Multi-Agent AI Platform Built in Rust for Teams

#ai #automation #opensource #tools

4 min read

Mar 19

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: March 10–17, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

8 min read

Mahipal Mahipal

Mar 20

How 734+ Cybersecurity Skills Make AI Agents Stop Hallucinating Security Procedures

#security #cybersecurity #opensource #ai

6 min read

Mar 19

Why AI Agents Need Persistent Storage

#ai #agents #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Apr 1

I Built a Social Post Engine to Escape the Canva-Export-Schedule Loop

#opensource #automation #indiehackers #productivity

1 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 22

Kiwi-chan's Log: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Apr 1

Still Feel Alone Online? We Built Something to Fix That

#showdev #webdev #react #opensource

4 min read

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