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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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Nov 28 '25

User-defined networks

#docker #devops #cloud #opensource

3 min read

Vincent Eckert Sierota

Nov 28 '25

Weekly Rust Progress — Observability & Cryptography

#security #monitoring #rust #opensource

1 min read

Dec 31 '25

Open Source Is People: A Python & Django Year

#opensource #python #django #yearinreview

3 min read

Meysam

Nov 29 '25

WE'RE LIVE ON PRODUCT HUNT

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #startup

1 min read

Hemanath Kumar J

Jan 2

Large Language Models (LLMs): Key Trends & Insights

#trends #llm #ai #opensource

2 min read

Hardik Sondagar

Nov 26 '25

aigit - Git workflow automation with AI

#git #ai #opensource

2 min read

Nov 29 '25

Need Technical Co-Founder Tonight - AI Companion App Already Built

#ai #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

B Lokajna

Jan 1

How Chinese Companies Make Money with Open-Source AI

#ai #deepseek #opensource #moneymaking

4 min read

Dmitry Labintcev

Jan 1

My 2025 Year in Review: From 0 to 200 AI Security Engines

#llmsecurity #security #opensource #yearinreview

5 min read

DASWU

Nov 28 '25

NAS vs. Object Storage vs. JuiceFS: Storage Selection of Billion-Dollar Quantitative Firms

#opensource

12 min read

deltax

Jan 1

If AI Doesn’t Improve Anything, It Should Stop Talking

#ai #governance #safety #opensource

1 min read

deltax

Jan 1

DELTΔX: A non-decision AI governance framework with explicit stop conditions

#ai #governance #safety #opensource

1 min read

DD

Nov 28 '25

Deploying weserv/images with Docker

#tutorial #devops #docker #opensource

1 min read

Eliana Lam

Nov 29 '25

Building Streaming Iceberg Tables for Real-Time Logistics Analytics

#analytics #dataengineering #architecture #opensource

4 min read

SUNANDA SAMANTA

Dec 30 '25

I Hacked GitHub Readmes to Show Real-Time Data (No Spinner, No JS)

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

4 min read

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