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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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Jan 25

From Yellow Pages to Autonomous Agents: Why I’m Building a New Protocol for the Service Economy

#ai #architecture #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Madhu Sudhan Subedi for Tech Weekly

Jan 25

Weekly #04-2026: Astro Joins Cloudflare, Curl Drops OpenSSL QUIC, AI Can't Replace Developers

#webdev #opensource #devops #technews

4 min read

Rolan Lobo

Jan 25

Introducing QR Code Steganography: Because Normal QR Codes Are Too Mainstream

#webdev #opensource #python #react

5 min read

Mike Lane

Jan 28

Your Tests Pass. But Would They Catch This Bug?

#python #testing #pytest #opensource

2 min read

Rahul Prajapati

Jan 25

📊 Two Weeks In: How My First Flutter Chart Package Is Performing on pub.dev 🚀

#showdev #flutter #opensource #pubdev

2 min read

Jan 25

Top 5 LLM Gateways in 2026: A Comprehensive Guide for Production Teams

#ai #llm #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jan 25

Clawdbot: The AI Assistant Siri Promised But Never Delivered — Complete 2026 Guide

#ai #opensource #productivity #selfhosted

5 min read

Danny

Feb 8

My take on transforming data

#javascript #opensource #webdev #dataengineering

3 min read

Andres Valdivia

Jan 25

Del ERP legacy a una plataforma moderna: cómo repensar la transición operativa

#erp #architecture #legacy #opensource

4 min read

KEI

Jan 25

I built a GUI Client for Discord Bots using Electron & React (Open Source)

#discord #electron #react #opensource

2 min read

BLACKDWARF for SIPHON

Jan 25

Hello, World. Meet SIPHON.

#news #opensource #ai #python

1 min read

Barbora Klusackova

Jan 26

Devlog-OSS-Finder-03: Good First Issues and Testing

#opensource #testing #aws #webdev

2 min read

Jan 25

Curl Gets Rid Of Its Bug Bounty Program Over Ai Sl

#news #ai #opensource #security

7 min read

Jan 25

Why is Linux important to Data Engineers

#dataengineering #docker #linux #opensource

2 min read

Munish Kumar sharma

Feb 7

I Shipped My First VS Code Extension — Here’s What I Learned

#vscode #opensource #webdev #productivity

2 min read

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