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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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Vasyl

May 7

Open-source licenses 101: which one to actually pick

#opensource #beginners #programming #tutorial

5 min read

Bruce He

Apr 4

Cursor Composer 2: The Kimi K2.5 Controversy and What It Means

#cursor #ai #coding #opensource

1 min read

Raj

May 7

I Cut My Claude Code Token Usage by 94% With This Open Source Tool

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Igor Ganapolsky

Apr 3

I built a proentropic memory layer for AI coding agents — every mistake makes the system stronger

#ai #opensource #mcp #devtools

1 min read

Alex K

May 7

Complior 1.0: One `npm install` — and You Have AI Compliance

#ai #opensource #compliance #devtools

9 min read

TimechoDB

Apr 8

Bringing Time-Series Forecasting into Apache IoTDB Database

#database #devops #opensource #performance

5 min read

Apr 4

3 Open Source Productivity Apps That Respect Your Privacy

#opensource #privacy #productivity #resources

1 min read

Eray Özer

Apr 3

How to Build Resilient AI Agents: Stop Flaky LLM Calls from Crashing Your App 🛡️

#python #ai #automation #opensource

2 min read

Di Arch

Apr 3

I Built npm for AI Skills — Here's Why AI Needs a Package Manager

#ai #opensource #mcp #productivity

5 min read

Metadata and branch hygiene checklist

Giorgi Kobaidze

Apr 11

The Final 1% of Every GitHub Project: Sealing It Properly

#github #opensource #development #repository

12 min read

Apr 3

I built an npm malware scanner and found 21 malicious packages in 24 hours

#security #npm #javascript #opensource

1 min read

byteguard

Apr 26

Top 10 Self-Hosted Alternatives to SaaS Tools

#selfhosted #opensource #docker #privacy

7 min read

Alexandr Zahatski

May 7

Coming in Podlite 2.0

#opensource #podlite #webdev #documentation

3 min read

Abhishek Kaushik

Apr 3

I built a CLI data quality tool that goes beyond schema checks - here's what I learned

#dataengineering #opensource #cli #machinelearning

2 min read

Apr 4

Solve_nivp: Python Research software made for time stepping non-smooth Ordinary Differential Equations/DAEs.

#python #opensource #programming #tutorial

1 min read

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