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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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Feb 18

Building an Awesome List That Actually Gets Stars (Step-by-Step)

#github #opensource #community #projectmanagement

5 min read

Jan 25

From Yellow Pages to Autonomous Agents: Why I’m Building a New Protocol for the Service Economy

#ai #architecture #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Feb 28

How NOT to behave in Open Source

#opensource

5 min read

Madhu Sudhan Subedi for Tech Weekly

Jan 25

Weekly #04-2026: Astro Joins Cloudflare, Curl Drops OpenSSL QUIC, AI Can't Replace Developers

#webdev #opensource #devops #technews

4 min read

Feb 28

Why Non-Custodial Agent Wallets Win: Coinbase vs MoonPay vs Open Source

#ai #web3 #cryptocurrency #opensource

3 min read

Sid Thyagarajan

Feb 26

I Built an AI Agent Monitoring System as a Non-Dev Side Project. Here's Why.

#ai #opensource #python #security

2 min read

Rock

Feb 28

7 Open-Source Frameworks for Deploying AI Bots to Messaging Platforms in 2026

#ai #chatbot #opensource #telegram

5 min read

yalelet dessalegn

Feb 17

I Built a Security Firewall for AI Agents — Here's Why Every MCP Server Needs One

#webdev #ai #opensource #security

4 min read

Tyooughtul

Feb 28

I Built a Mac Cleaner That Never Deletes Files Permanently

#productivity #opensource #macbook #go

3 min read

Rolan Lobo

Jan 25

Introducing QR Code Steganography: Because Normal QR Codes Are Too Mainstream

#webdev #opensource #python #react

5 min read

Mike Lane

Jan 28

Your Tests Pass. But Would They Catch This Bug?

#python #testing #pytest #opensource

2 min read

Mojave Hao

Feb 28

Introducing KOllama: A Kotlin-First Ollama Client with Full Type Safety

#kotlin #ai #opensource #programming

5 min read

Mohit ✨

Feb 28

🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: February 2026

#devjournal #opensource #productivity #ai

3 min read

Feb 28

The 6 Technical Checks Your AI Agents Need Before August 2026

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

6 min read

Rock

Feb 28

Deep Dive into the LangBot Plugin System: Process Isolation, Event-Driven Hooks & Component Architecture

#ai #architecture #python #opensource

8 min read

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