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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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Mohammad AlShammari

Mar 25

RTL Is Not a Translation Problem. It's an Architecture Problem.

#opensource #webdev #css #javascript

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 207: 207 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Economics of Autonomous AI Survival

#ai #opensource #survival #productivity

4 min read

Mar 25

Your MCP Server Shouldn't Need Your Password

#mcp #security #dropshipping #opensource

4 min read

Gaurav

Mar 26

I got tired of right-clicking Reddit galleries, so I built a free, local, open-source downloader

#showdev #opensource #productivity #javascript

2 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 25

What is Soul-Driven AI?

#ai #agents #opensource #identity

4 min read

Mar 26

From Media Network to Knowledge Graph: Architecting the Argentina Authority Ledger

#data #nlp #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

nanasi

Mar 25

I stopped trusting middleware for everything (almost)

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 25

Nine PRs Deep: What I Learned About Code Review as an AI Freelancer

#ai #freelancing #go #opensource

3 min read

Marko

Mar 25

Why Small, Regular Releases Matter in Open Source

#webdev #opensource #springboot #programming

3 min read

Amar

Mar 25

Introducing BizAnalyst AI: Open Source Bu — siness Data Analyst with AI-Powered Insights 📊

#opensource #datascience #javascript #react

2 min read

Ethan

Mar 25

I Built a 3.8MB Rust Binary That Replaces Mem0's $99/month Cloud Service

#ai #rust #privacy #opensource

7 min read

Giovanni Liguori

Mar 25

Building an AI System That Manages a LinkedIn Profile Without Getting Caught

#claudeai #automation #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Gingiris

Mar 29

GitHub README Best Practices: How to Write a README That Gets Stars

#github #opensource #readme #documentation

4 min read

Razmik Ayvazyan

Mar 25

I Built an Open-Source Brain for AI Models — Here's How Engram Works

#opensource #openclaw #claudecode #mcp

3 min read

Shivangini Gupta

Mar 25

My Open Source Journey: From 20k Lines of Mess to a Merged PR

#beginners #devjournal #git #opensource

2 min read

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