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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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cpengc1984

Jun 10

"Supports custom code" means nothing. Here's the 3-level ruler that tells you if a low-code platform will lock you in.

#lowcode #devtools #opensource #softwareengineering

2 min read

HM Cheng

Jun 10

How to Take Your MCP Server from Grade C to Grade B

#mcp #ai #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Ionut-Cristian Florescu

Jun 9

If the Shai-Hulud worm reached your GitHub repos, please read this

#security #github #opensource #malware

6 min read

MORINAGA

Jun 9

Static site search for Astro in 2026: why I picked Pagefind over Algolia and Lunr

#astro #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Jun 10

The Cheapest Way to Self-Host Excalidraw in 2026

#selfhosted #opensource #devops #productivity

7 min read

Alireza Arjvand

Jun 10

Stop Writing Test Fixtures by Hand: Generate Them Directly From Your Schemas

#typescript #testing #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Ciro Souza

Jun 9

The Ultimate Guide to Distrohopping: How to Hop Safely Without Breaking Your System

#linux #opensource #tutorial #productivity

5 min read

Ciro Souza

Jun 9

The Ultimate Guide to Distrohopping: How to Hop Safely Without Breaking Your System

#linux #opensource #tutorial #productivity

5 min read

Ciro Souza

Jun 9

The Ultimate Guide to Distrohopping: How to Hop Safely Without Breaking Your System

#linux #opensource #tutorial #productivity

5 min read

David Aronchick

Jun 9

The Leopard's Head

#opensource #security #supplychain #history

6 min read

Michael Bernhart

Jun 14

An Open-Source SEO + GEO Audit Toolkit in Plain Node

#opensource #seo #node #webdev

4 min read

Basheer

Jun 9

Your Android image compressor might crash on Android 15 — so I built a pure-JVM one

#android #kotlin #opensource #mobile

2 min read

Jun 9

I Forgot My Linux Password — And Reset It in 5 Minutes

#linux #ubuntu #opensource

3 min read

ANIS

Jun 9

How I monitor my Telegram userbots with zero infra

#showdev #python #telegram #opensource

3 min read

Aglair

Jun 9

goflix: acervo de vídeos no terminal, feito em Go

#braziliandevs #go #opensource #linux

2 min read

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