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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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Ravindu Gajanayaka

Mar 8

How I Designed a Multi-Tenant ERP System That Isolates 100% of Customer Data

#webdev #postgressql #nextjs #opensource

5 min read

Robin

Feb 4

From 400-Line Import Controllers to 20-Line Configs in Laravel

#laravel #php #opensource #webdev

3 min read

CJ

Feb 4

LGTM != Production Ready: Why your CI pipeline is missing the most important step

#devops #sre #opensource #infrastructure

3 min read

Godadevi

Mar 11

Getting Started with OpenStreetMap: Exploring the Concept

#openstreetmap #opensource #learning #map

2 min read

PLAYCAT

Mar 11

Building a Cat Enrichment Assessment Tool in Python

#python #opensource #petcare #tutorial

1 min read

WonderLab

Mar 11

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 13): Tunnelto - High-Performance Local Tunnel Tool Built with Rust

#opensource #tunnel #rust #develop

7 min read

Shayan M Hussain

Mar 11

Run Express on Bun. Without the rewrite.

#express #opensource #typescript #bunjs

2 min read

Mar 10

OS-Level Sandboxing: Kernel Isolation for AI Agents

#security #ai #sandboxing #opensource

12 min read

Kai

Feb 4

Why We Built 9 Agent Kits in 1 Day (And Why That Matters)

#ai #agents #opensource #buildinpublic

8 min read

Mar 10

Application-Layer Defense: Stopping Exfiltration Inside the Sandbox

#security #ai #typescript #opensource

15 min read

Evgeniy

Feb 4

Digital Archaeology: Resurrecting GTK 1.3 for MSVC 2022

#cpp #microsoft #opensource #ui

3 min read

Mar 11

From Heartless Systems to Heartfelt Infrastructure Building Obinexus

#decentralization #opensource #humanrights #linux

4 min read

정상록

Mar 11

Awesome-mac: The GitHub Repo I Bookmark for Every Mac Setup (99.8K Stars)

#github #opensource #productivity #resources

5 min read

Kai

Feb 4

We Built a Governance Toolkit to Save AI Projects from the 2027 Cancellation Wave

#ai #agents #opensource #governance

4 min read

Mar 10

I built an open-source S3-native Kafka alternative. Here's how it works under the hoo

#opensource #rust #kafka #architecture

3 min read

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