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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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Mar 11

Espanso vs TextExpander 2026: Why Configuration-as-Code Sometimes Fails

#productivity #programming #linux #opensource

3 min read

Ibrahim Olawoyin

Mar 25

Outreachy 2026 -Comprehensive portfolio of my contributions to the Fedora Project during the Outreachy application phase

#outreachy #fedora #opensource #portfolio

5 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 11

Files Are the New API — But Who's Checking the Files?

#ai #agents #security #opensource

4 min read

Apr 14

⚡ From `git clone` to Full Company Operating System in 60 Seconds.

#showdev #opensource #ai #devops

6 min read

ZigRazor

Mar 24

CXXGraph: The Header-Only C++ Graph Library You Should Know About

#cpp #algorithms #graphtheory #opensource

9 min read

Kyubin Kim

Apr 14

Agent can bypass Proxy governance, What can we do?

#ai #security #agents #opensource

3 min read

Mar 25

I Replaced 8 Browser Tabs With One Tool I Built Myself

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Apr 14

The Best Notification Libraries for React Native in 2026: Which One Should You Choose?

#react #reactnative #opensource #npm

8 min read

Apr 14

How Bifrost's MCP Gateway Cuts AI Agent Token Costs by 92% Without Sacrificing Capability

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

8 min read

Zaptain Zi

Mar 11

I Built an Experience Layer for Claude Code So It Would Stop Re-Solving the Same Bugs

#ai #beginners #opensource #github

7 min read

Anthony Johnson II

Apr 14

From Theory to Evidence: Validating Shannon Entropy for Data Quality at Scale

#dataquality #databricks #dataengineering #opensource

7 min read

Gingiris

Apr 3

GitHub Stars History: How to Track, Analyze & Grow Your Repository

#github #opensource #programming #devops

5 min read

Vitaly D.

Mar 11

Skillpulse: Your AI Skills Are Flying Blind Without Telemetry

#aiagents #claudecode #telemetry #opensource

3 min read

Pranit

Mar 11

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Pranit

Mar 11

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

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