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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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marcosomma

Jul 10 '25

🧠 LoopNode: How OrKa Orchestrates Iterated Thought Until Agreement Emerges

#ai #agentaichallenge #opensource #python

3 min read

tikrack

Jul 11 '25

TikCopy – A Minimal Clipboard History Tool for Linux Built in Rust

#rust #linux #opensource #cli

2 min read

Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 11 '25

Game-Changer Release: Infoscava v2.1.9 is Here

#infoscava #fileanalysis #pyside6 #opensource

2 min read

Yusuf Mescioğlu

Jul 11 '25

We're building a more private, efficient, and sustainable way to share files. No servers, no storage, just direct transfers.

#p2p #opensource #webrtc #productivity

1 min read

Jul 11 '25

Would you like to be a movie star by contributing to open source?

#opensource #programming #python #cybersecurity

2 min read

Sumit Roy

Jul 11 '25

The next update is here for my system design diagram builder

#programming #beginners #systemdesign #opensource

1 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Jul 10 '25

How to generate PDFs in the browser with Javascript (no server needed)

#javascript #programming #pdf #opensource

11 min read

KL3FT3Z

Jul 10 '25

What does Bloody Mary taste like? I wrote an educational scaremonger virus for cybersecurity specialists.

#programming #cybersecurity #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Noorsimar Singh

Jul 10 '25

Building a YouTube Scraper with Scrapy: A Developer's Journey

#webscraping #python #opensource #youtube

4 min read

Max Shen

Jul 10 '25

How I Fixed GitHub’s 14 Days Repo Traffic Graph

#opensource #github #webdev #frontend

3 min read

Isha_17Bhardwaj

Jul 10 '25

Building Llama.cpp-Based Local AI Chat Assistant

#ai #beginners #llm #opensource

6 min read

hmza

Jul 10 '25

🧰 9 Open Source Tools Every Developer Should Know 🔥

#opensource #tools #devplusplus #programming

3 min read

tsuruko

Jul 9 '25

Switch Values and Logic—No Ifs, Just a Python Library

#python #opensource #library #triggon

3 min read

Laura Salinas for AWS

Jul 8 '25

Using Strands Agents with Anthropic API 🧬

#aws #opensource #learning #anthropic

3 min read

Val Giner

Jun 9 '25

Building a Modern Grep Alternative for Windows with .NET 9.0

#dotnet #csharp #windowsutility #opensource

2 min read

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