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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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dband drm

Apr 2

The Gap Between Database Version Control and Release Management

#database #devops #opensource #python

5 min read

airupt

Apr 2

How I stopped paying OpenAI to run my test suite

#ai #python #testing #opensource

2 min read

Gaurang Torvekar

Apr 2

Why I chose a CLI over MCP for my Dev Tool

#ai #cli #opensource #rag

6 min read

Siddharth Singh

Apr 2

Rootly Alternative: Open Source AI Incident Management

#ai #devops #kubernetes #opensource

6 min read

Apr 25

Cutting my AI spend to zero with an open-source Claude Code alternative

#openagent #ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

saravanan lakshmanan

Apr 2

Why Your AI Copilot Builds the Wrong Thing (And How to Fix It)

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Muhammad Zain Shabbir

Apr 2

How WebAssembly makes it possible to process PDFs entirely in your browser

#webassembly #javascript #privacy #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

Audit System - NewStarT (Custom OWL)

#django #opensource #python #tutorial

7 min read

Andrey Kucherenko

May 6

16 frameworks. One Blind Spot

#ai #agents #llm #opensource

9 min read

Ali Hassan

Apr 2

Node Telescope — Laravel Telescope for Node.js

#showdev #monitoring #node #opensource

2 min read

Mohamed Hussain S

May 6

PostgreSQL Restore Failures: It Wasn’t pgBackRest, It Was My Recovery Logic

#postgres #database #devops #opensource

6 min read

El Housseine Jaafari

Apr 1

Building an Engineering & Security News Aggregator (10 Sources, No APIs)

#javascript #opensource #webdev #security

2 min read

berthelius for Frihet

Apr 2

Why I Built Frihet Solo: One Developer, Zero Investors

#startup #opensource #buildinpublic #typescript

6 min read

hiehoo

Apr 2

I gave my AI coding assistant a body — and now it lives in my terminal

#opensource #terminal #javascript #ai

3 min read

0n

Apr 2

How I Would Have Stopped the March 2026 Axios Supply Chain Attack (Free Tool Inside)

#security #npm #ai #opensource

2 min read

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