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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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Dmitry Labintcev

Feb 26

Qwen 3.5-Plus God Mode: 5-Stage Safety Bypass — Full Attack Chain

#ai #opensource #security

1 min read

Andrew Chadwick

Feb 27

I built a task tracker for Dislexic brains. Today, it finally has a simple installer

#showdev #productivity #opensource #ai

2 min read

Lena

Feb 27

Kiksi Update: A More Intuitive, Interactive Experience for Discord Bots

#discord #bot #opensource

3 min read

Jan 28

Meta Mosaic: A Lightweight, Interactive Mosaic Layout for React

#programming #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Feb 27

Behavioral commerce prompting: the conversion layer hiding in your MCP tool responses

#ai #webdev #php #opensource

3 min read

Feb 27

Stop Guessing Why Your Laravel App Is Slow — This Free Package Diagnoses & Fixes It For You

#laravel #php #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Aviral Srivastava

Jan 24

Publishing Crates to crates.io

#beginners #opensource #rust #tutorial

7 min read

Roman Shalabanov

Feb 27

Building a Laravel SDK for Creem.io: multi-profile billing, webhook events, and an interactive demo

#laravel #php #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Roman Shalabanov

Feb 27

Building a Laravel SDK for Creem.io: multi-profile billing, webhook events, and an interactive demo

#laravel #php #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Juan Camilo Auriti

Feb 27

I Built a Memory System That Thinks Like a Human Brain - Here's How Kore Memory Works

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Jan 28

Programando em Pituguês! - Uma linguagem inspirada em Python

#tutorial #python #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Nguyễn Phúc Vinh

Feb 27

Introducing Biopass: Modern Multi-Modal Biometric Login for Linux

#linux #opensource #cpp #security

3 min read

Jan 28

Hackeando o Inglês: Programando na Língua em que Você Pensa

#news #programming #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Feb 27

Shipped Eid Mubarak Effect 🌙

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jan 24

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): Standardizing Agent-Native Commerce

#ai #opensource #learning #api

2 min read

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