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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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NocoBase

Dec 5 '25

Top 5 Open-Source AI Internal Tools on GitHub

#ai #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

Sergey Nikolaev

Nov 12 '25

Manticore Search 14.1.0: Force Bigrams and Bug Fixes

#database #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Dec 10 '25

Introducing GoCVKit: Zero-Boilerplate Computer Vision in Go

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Phil Yeh

Nov 25 '25

Stop decoding Hex manually. I built a Python J1939 Sniffer with a GUI (No Hardware Needed)

#python #automation #engineering #opensource

2 min read

Nov 25 '25

Terminal Micro ENGINE | A tiny DOS-style game engine

#programming #software #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

fmerian

Dec 15 '25

The State of Open Source 2025 - Key Takeaways

#discuss #opensource #github #ai

1 min read

Bonnie for CopilotKit

Dec 16 '25

Build with Google's new A2UI Spec: Agent User Interfaces with A2UI + AG-UI

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

16 min read

Nov 12 '25

Bug fix release 2.08 for the Perl Distribution Workflow

#release #opensource #perl

1 min read

Dec 5 '25

🔐 Exploring Wi‑Fi Security Safely: A Beginner‑Friendly Guide to the WiFi‑Lab Controller (with GUI!)

#cybersecurity #wifihack #phishing #opensource

4 min read

Coroot

Dec 15 '25

Monitoring a Docker Homelab with Open Source

#devops #kubernetes #docker #opensource

5 min read

ZedIoT

Nov 12 '25

SmolRTSP: Open-Source Practices for Efficient RTSP Streaming in Embedded Systems

#smolrtsp #rtsp #embedded #opensource

7 min read

Alberto Luiz Souza

Dec 15 '25

Analisando o Código Fonte do Outbox Namastech.io: Uma Implementação Genérica do Outbox Pattern

#java #architecture #springboot #opensource

9 min read

Dec 15 '25

Apache Dev List Digest: Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow & Parquet (Dec 9th - Dec15th, 2025)

#news #dataengineering #opensource

7 min read

Dec 15 '25

Relica: A Zero-Dependency Query Builder for Go That Won't Break Your Code

#go #database #sql #opensource

10 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Dec 4 '25

Serving LLMs at Scale with KitOps, Kubeflow, and KServe

#ai #tutorial #devops #opensource

21 min read

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