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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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NocoBase

Aug 15 '25

Top 18 Open Source AI Agent Projects with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #ai #llm #mcp

14 min read

Shrijith Venkatramana

Sep 17 '25

Git Notes Unraveled: History, Mechanics, and Practical Uses

#programming #beginners #devops #opensource

5 min read

NocoBase

Aug 15 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#opensource #lowcode #nocode

4 min read

Unicorn Developer

Sep 18 '25

Use PVS-Studio to analyze open-source projects

#opensource #cicd #yaml #programming

5 min read

Sep 18 '25

🚀 Join Hacktoberfest 2025: Contribute to Our DSA Code Repository!

#hacktoberfest2025 #opensource #dsa #programming

3 min read

Sep 18 '25

The Offset Reset Dilemma: Avoiding Surprise Replays in Kafka

#kafka #opensource #programming #eventdriven

1 min read

cong yin

Sep 18 '25

MuseBot: Multi-Platform Chatbot with Multi-LLMs Support

#opensource #ai #go #javascript

1 min read

Rabbil Yasar Sajal

Sep 17 '25

The End of .env Chaos: Introducing EnvShield

#security #devops #python #opensource

4 min read

Sep 17 '25

FastOpp: A Student-Friendly Starter for AI Web Apps

#ai #fastapi #opensource #python

3 min read

Sep 16 '25

From Zero to CRUD - A Tiny Spring Boot H2 Boilerplate You’ll Actually Use

#springboot #boilerplate #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Aug 14 '25

MCP + VS Code: Assisted pentest on an HTB box — from install to first flag

#cybersecurity #automation #opensource #pentest

14 min read

Sep 17 '25

🕒 Per-Thread Timers: Areg vs Qt vs POCO

#programming #cpp #opensource #learning

2 min read

Sep 17 '25

My Experience Publishing to the Official MCP Registry - Is It Worth It Right Now?

#mcp #ai #developer #opensource

1 min read

Sep 16 '25

Spec Driven Development (SDD) - A initial review

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

13 min read

Ben Wang

Aug 14 '25

⚡ Supercharge Your HuggingFace Downloads with MCP-HuggingFetch - 3-5x Faster!

#showdev #ai #node #opensource

3 min read

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