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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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Carrie

Jun 30 '25

SafeLine WAF v8.10.1 Release Notes

#waf #firewall #opensource

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 4: Getting Started with the Framework

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

5 min read

Aug 3 '25

GLM 4.5 vs. Promptfoo: A Playbook for Systematic LLM Security Audits

#glm4 #opensource #security #llm

19 min read

Aug 2 '25

How to Use YINI Config Files in a Node.js App (with Real Examples)

#node #typescript #javascript #opensource

3 min read

marcosomma

Jul 31 '25

🧠 I Didn't Know Where It Was Going. I Just Kept Going.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #redis

3 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 2 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 1: The Problem with Traditional Spring Batch Scaling

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Matteo De Micheli

Aug 2 '25

Why I Built Sounds Social with Meteor.js, React, Tailwind & Bytescale

#javascript #react #meteor #opensource

3 min read

Jun 29 '25

JSON0 - Speed Meets Simplicity

#java #opensource #stripe #programming

3 min read

Aniket Raj

Aug 2 '25

RELEASING KARL DOCS

#opensource #ai #kotlin #android

2 min read

Aug 2 '25

GSoC 2025 - Week 8: Designing Serial Port Component and Real Hardware Demo

#opensource #circuitverse #arduino #gsoc2025

2 min read

ktny

Jun 29 '25

I built a tool to visualize Claude Code activity like GitHub contributions

#cli #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

Jun 29 '25

GSoC Week 4: RTL Madness, OAuth Adventures & Markdown Mayhem

#opensource #flutter #gsoc #learning

4 min read

Peter Gebri for HydrAIDE

Aug 1 '25

How I Made Europe Searchable From a Single Server - The Story of HydrAIDE

#news #go #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Aug 1 '25

Promptfoo x Qwen3-Coder: Unmasking Vulnerabilities in 480 Billion Parameters

#promptfoo #opensource #security #llm

14 min read

Bonnie for CopilotKit

Jul 30 '25

Build a Fullstack Stock Portfolio Agent with Mastra and AG-UI

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

23 min read

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