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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.

submission guidelines

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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GOLU YADAV

Jul 2 '25

Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms

#crypto #opensource #cicd

3 min read

Jul 2 '25

🚀 Build the Perfect GitHub Profile README with My Open Source Generator!

#github #opensource #ai #community

2 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 5 '25

Why Legal Systems Fail Against Executable Sovereigns: Law Doesn’t See the Code

#law #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

Jul 1 '25

🚀 Introducing MyStarterTheme: A Clean, Minimal WordPress Starter Theme for Developers

#wordpress #webdev #opensource #themes

2 min read

Sinclair

Jul 1 '25

How I Built a Repository Validator Tool That Saved Our Team Hours of Code Review

#productivity #opensource #validation

2 min read

Eric

May 28 '25

Open-Launch

#showdev #opensource

2 min read

Oluwafemi Adelekan

Jul 1 '25

Building Fluid Interfaces with "Liquid Glass" – Open Source on Figma

#liquidglass #ui #figma #opensource

1 min read

Dave

Jul 1 '25

🚀 I Missed the Hackathon Deadline—But I’m Still Releasing My Project for the People

#webdev #opensource #hackathon #ai

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 29 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #211

#opensource #aws

34 min read

Jul 1 '25

The Best ngrok Alternative for Linux: Tunnelmole - Open Source

#ngrok #linux #tunneling #opensource

4 min read

Jul 1 '25

Promptfoo vs Deepteam vs PyRIT vs Garak: The Ultimate Red Teaming Showdown for LLMs

#opensource #llm #security #vulnerabilities

10 min read

Code Block

May 28 '25

Need contribution

#github #java #socket #opensource

1 min read

Giorgi Khachidze

May 28 '25

Made KLIPY GitHub Repo Public, But Google Still Can’t Find It?

#discuss #github #seo #opensource

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jun 29 '25

📢 HMPL-DOM v0.0.1 Released: Write Reactive HTML Without JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jul 1 '25

Tried Deepsite v2 Yet?

#deepseek #deepsite #opensource

1 min read

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