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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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Djelloul

Jan 5

I built a simple tool: Excel JSON with validation (free beta)

#python #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 5

I built a "Vibe-Based" Notepad with Tauri v2 (It weighs 4MB)

#showdev #opensource #productivity #rust

2 min read

Feb 10

Building Trishul-SNMP: A Modern Web-Based SNMP Toolkit to Replace $500 Commercial Tools

#snmp #networking #opensource #python

8 min read

haynajjar

Feb 10

Free Dataset of 51M+ Companies and Their Tech Stacks (Daily Updates!)

#showdev #opensource #data #api

5 min read

Jan 5

I Built a Zero-Latency Chrome Extension with Svelte 5 (Runes) & Tailwind v4

#svelte #opensource #chromeextension #webdev

3 min read

Ali Farhat

Feb 7

Why OpenClaw Breaks at Scale: A Technical Perspective

#ai #architecture #opensource #systemdesign

5 min read

Jan 5

I Built a Free System Diagnostic Tool for Gamers - Here's Why

#windows #gaming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jan 7

🧠 MonkeysCMS: An AI-Native CMS Built on MonkeysLegion — Rethinking Content Platforms from the Core

#php #laravel #symfony #opensource

3 min read

RapidKit

Feb 10

The RapidKit Ecosystem: Three Tools, One Vision

#rapidkit #opensource #api #devtools

6 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 7

Why Detection Lost: Building Cryptographic Provenance for the Synthetic Media Crisis

#security #ai #opensource

10 min read

Maurizio Turatti

Feb 10

Facet: The data-driven Web framework

#webdev #opensource #api #mongodb

6 min read

Bruno Aggierni 🇺🇾

Jan 30

🚀 Meet CTV Bridge: The Open-Source Desktop App That Simplifies Tizen, webOS & AndroidTV Development

#ctv #opensource #typescript #electron

2 min read

lohnsonok

Jan 5

Model Workflow Context (MWC): The Open Standard AI Coding Tools Have Been Waiting For

#ai #developertools #opensource #cursor

4 min read

Mahendra Gurjar

Feb 10

Why Your AI Agent Keeps Forgetting Things

#ai #python #opensource #llm

4 min read

Jan 20

I Built a Localhost Tunneling tool in TypeScript - Here's What Surprised Me

#typescript #node #websockets #opensource

10 min read

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