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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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Feb 23

Custom Odoo 19 Implementations Are Moving from Modules to Micro-Features

#architecture #opensource #python #softwareengineering

4 min read

Jan 19

Lock N' Key : The Developer's Vault

#privacy #security #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 14

Update: Scaling Back The Foundation

#discuss #community #career #opensource

1 min read

0xkniraj

Jan 19

Taproot part1: Generating P2TR KeyPath Witness Programs 🚀

#bitcoin #opensource #taproot #javascript

3 min read

Feb 22

I’m Building an Open Source PDF Toolkit in Flutter — Looking for Contributors

#flutter #dart #opensource #android

2 min read

WIOWIZ Technologies

Feb 22

DFT: The Crucial Gap in Open-Source Chip Design

#eventdriven #chipdesign #dft #opensource

2 min read

sam jha

Feb 22

I built a Python CLI that reads INSIDE your files to organize them — here's how it works

#showdev #python #opensource #cli

2 min read

Feb 22

Building Tripwired: Engineering a Deterministic Kill-Switch for Autonomous Agents

#rust #node #aiagents #opensource

4 min read

SpicyCode

Feb 22

The evolution of AI prompting: how 4 years of research inspired my new Claude Code Skill

#ai #opensource #promptengineering #github

2 min read

Feb 21

How to Add a Kill Switch to Your AI Agent in 5 Minutes

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

MD. HABIBULLAH SHARIF

Feb 22

Distro Wars 2026: Which Linux Should You Actually Use?

#beginners #linux #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Philipp Enderle

Feb 20

Your AI Agents Need an Org Chart — But Not the Kind You Think

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

7 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 20

Building Tamper-Evident Audit Trails for Algorithmic Trading: A Deep Dive into VCP v1.1

#python #mql5 #fintech #opensource

18 min read

Jan 19

I Reverse-Engineered a Horror Game's Logic to Build an Open Source Ending Calculator (Astro + Tailwind)

#showdev #gamedev #opensource #webdev

2 min read

João Pedro Silva Setas

Feb 22

What OpenClaw Actually Is — and Why Running Claws Needs a Cloud

#agents #ai #cloud #opensource

5 min read

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