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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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Aleksandar Maletic

Mar 2

Meet BlokJS - 9 KB, No Build Step, Standalone, Full FE Framework

#javascript #frontend #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Miccy

Jan 30

Two Minutes Hate #1 - The awakening of the EU

#eu #opensource #regulatory

1 min read

yossi

Mar 5

What if we extracted literally EVERY behavior of dev.to into Markdown? (An AI Agent Experiment)

#opensource #devto #forem #vibecoding

14 min read

Amit Singh

Mar 5

Sharing music with Navidrome, Filebrowser and Civo

#navidrome #civo #filebrowser #opensource

9 min read

Jan 30

Self-Hosted Workflow Automation: Exploring Open-Source n8n Alternatives

#automation #devops #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Jan 30

How I built a proactive personal AI assistant based on Moltbot for 10€ a month

#showdev #selfhosted #ai #opensource

4 min read

Mar 5

What Is an Economic Firewall?

#ai #security #api #opensource

5 min read

Mar 5

How We Built Data Retention for SendRec

#go #postgres #gdpr #opensource

6 min read

Rost

Jan 30

Top 19 Trending Go Projects on GitHub - January 2026

#go #opensource #ai

10 min read

Shin

Jan 30

Why point-wise safety breaks over time

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

Chandravijay Agrawal

Mar 5

Building TerraViz: A Real-Time Planet Dashboard Using Only Open Source Data

#webdev #opensource #maps #javascript

2 min read

Echo.lee for seekdb

Mar 5

Find Your Fit: When to Use seekdb

#ai #opensource #vectordatabase #rag

3 min read

Alexander Leonhard

Mar 5

We Built Open Protocols for the Job Market — Here's What We Learned

#ai #career #opensource

5 min read

Mar 5

AI Agents Can Now Make European Bank Payments Without a Bank Account

#ai #payments #opensource #webdev

3 min read

chovy

Feb 3

I Built an Open Source Screenhero Replacement for Real Pair Programming

#opensource #pairprogramming #webrtc #remotework

1 min read

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