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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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Mar 19

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: March 10–17, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

8 min read

Mar 20

Spacebot: The Multi-Agent AI Platform Built in Rust for Teams

#ai #automation #opensource #tools

4 min read

Mar 19

Why AI Agents Need Persistent Storage

#ai #agents #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Mahipal Mahipal

Mar 20

How 734+ Cybersecurity Skills Make AI Agents Stop Hallucinating Security Procedures

#security #cybersecurity #opensource #ai

6 min read

Mike Burns

Mar 19

GISMO v0.5.0-beta.1 - The Command Center Goes Operational

#ai #opensource #python #llm

3 min read

hutchpd

Mar 19

I built an open source browser-based AI medical scribe to see if that model could actually work

#showdev #ai #opensource #privacy

7 min read

nadavnaveh

Mar 19

Why AI Agent Orchestration Needs Its Own Language

#showdev #ai #opensource

2 min read

sainiok

Mar 19

FlyEnv: A Lightweight, Native Alternative to Docker for Local Web Development

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Vexilon

Mar 19

OverShare /ᐠ - -マ: File Sharing for Hackers

#showdev #go #opensource #selfhosted

3 min read

Mert

Mar 23

I Built a Visual Docker Compose Builder — Here's What I Learned

#docker #devtools #react #opensource

1 min read

Mar 30

AI terminal tools in 2026: Warp, Lacy Shell, and the rest

#terminal #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Ilias Georgopoulos

Mar 19

I Upgraded My Pentesting Toolkit: Introducing 2 Free Web Tools for Infosec 🛡️

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

linou518

Mar 19

Two Landmines That Nearly Killed Our 20-Agent Cluster — And How We Fixed Them

#ai #infrastructure #devops #opensource

3 min read

Mar 20

Why I Built a Privacy-First AI Assistant for Visual Studio 2022 (Goodbye Cloud-Only Copilots!)

#ai #opensource #csharp #productivity

2 min read

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Mar 20

How to make your website AI-agent friendly in 30 minutes

#ai #webdev #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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