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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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Muhammad Zubair Bin Akbar

Apr 13

AI Generated Code Joins the Linux Kernel, But Humans Stay in Charge

#ai #coding #opensource #programming

2 min read

ox3adie1

Apr 13

How I Built a Browser-Based UDF to PDF Converter for Turkish Legal Documents

#javascript #webdev #opensource #pdf

3 min read

Fay

Mar 10

I Built a Self-Hosted Web Layer for AI Agents

#ai #node #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 14

Freescout Vs Zammad

#opensource #productivity #software #startup

9 min read

Arkaprabha Banerjee

Mar 10

Legal vs Legitimate: How AI Reimplementation is Undermining Copyleft and Open Source Ethics

#aiethics #copyleft #opensource #legalai

3 min read

Apr 2

I Built compartment to Sandbox AI Agents on Linux

#linux #security #ai #opensource

1 min read

wd400

Apr 11

I code-reviewed 3 "vibe-coded" PRs last week. Every one had hardcoded API keys. So I built a grader.

#showdev #python #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 10

15 Best AI Agent Frameworks for Enterprise: Open-Source to Managed (2026)

#ai #opensource #enterprise #programming

13 min read

Kayode Williams Olalere

Mar 14

I Built a Terminal Workspace in Rust - Here's How It Started

#rust #linux #opensource #devops

2 min read

Selvacanabady P

Mar 10

The Hidden Architecture of the AI Revolution

#opensource #ai #history #architecture

4 min read

Mar 14

Documenso Vs Docuseal

#api #opensource #software #webdev

7 min read

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Apr 13

Working on Cabal v3: reviving a P2P mobile chat app with React Native

#reactnative #android #opensource #mobile

2 min read

MARUCIE

Mar 23

Your Password Never Leaves Your Device: Implementing SRP-6a in a Zero-Knowledge Password Manager

#cybersecurity #opensource #privacy #security

8 min read

Sensylze

Mar 10

DocOCR: Stop Manually Extracting Data From Documents — Let AI Do It

#ai #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Dre

Mar 10

We Open-Sourced Cerberus — Runtime Security for Agentic AI

#security #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

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