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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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Jan 30

Dev Toolbox CLI 6 tiny commands that save me time every day

#python #cli #productivity #opensource

1 min read

WonderLab

Mar 5

OpenClaw Deep Dive (5): Model and Provider System

#ai #opensource #openclaw #typescript

8 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Pulse AI SRE for OpenSearch and Elasticsearch

Feb 11

Wix’s xEngineer Is Changing The Definition of "Shift-Left"

#news #devops #elasticsearch #opensource

6 min read

Feb 11

MonkeysLegion GraphQL 2.0 — A Complete Rewrite, Built for the Future

#php #graphql #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 5

Part 3 | How Does Scheduling Actually “Start Running”?

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #bigdata #datascience

5 min read

Mar 5

Best Open-Source LLMs for RAG in 2026: 10 Models Ranked by Retrieval Accuracy

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

15 min read

Whitney for The Apache Software Foundation

Jan 29

How DiDi Scaled to Hundreds of Petabytes with Apache Ozone

#architecture #dataengineering #opensource #performance

4 min read

Meghshyam Sonar

Mar 5

I replaced console.log with a real-time error dashboard that runs on localhost

#node #react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Feb 12

I Built the Only Local-First Memory for AI Tools (and It's Free Forever)

#ai #opensource #mcp #privacy

6 min read

Kai

Mar 4

Sign in with Claude (or OpenAI) — your AI agent team is live in 7 minutes

#ai #agents #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Yurukusa

Mar 5

101 Free Developer Tools. One Portal. Zero Dependencies.

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Feb 9

RoomKit, Pipecat, TEN Framework, LiveKit Agents: Choosing the Right Conversational AI Framework

#agents #ai #architecture #opensource

9 min read

WonderLab

Mar 5

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 6): AionUi - Free Cross-Platform AI Office Assistant, the Perfect Claude Cowork Alternative

#opensource #ai #typescript

6 min read

Jan 30

Probability Is a Liability in Production

#ai #typescript #opensource #security

2 min read

Jan 29

Why I’m building an "Intent-Aware" engine for API Governance (Technical Preview)

#showdev #api #security #opensource

2 min read

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