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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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GDS K S

Feb 1

How to Use OpenClaw with Azure Foundry OpenAI Using LiteLLM Proxy

#azure #llm #ai #opensource

5 min read

THEE ANGLE

Jan 12

I built my own programming language in C – ShrijiLang

#compiling #opensource #c #programming

1 min read

Cleiton Augusto

Dec 27 '25

Implementing Adaptive Backpressure in Rust with FlowGuard

#programming #webdev #rust #opensource

3 min read

Teycir Ben Soltane

Dec 27 '25

Building Cryptographically Enforced Time-Locked Vaults on Cloudflare's Edge

#cryptography #nextjs #cloudflare #opensource

7 min read

Dec 28 '25

Fixing a Broken Example Link

#beginners #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Soufyan

Dec 28 '25

When a CLI Isn’t Enough: The Story Behind MKArchi Desktop

#mkarchi #webdev #opensource #ai

1 min read

Water Run

Dec 28 '25

pptx2png: Convert your .pptx to .png images with one click

#showdev #tooling #python #opensource

1 min read

Dec 28 '25

🚀 Twenty | Open-Source, Fully Customizable CRM

#opensource #crm #webdev #saas

2 min read

The Skills Team

Feb 1

Our AI Teams Had a Communication Problem (The Fix Was From 1995)

#ai #multiagent #architecture #opensource

5 min read

Jan 21

I Built a 2M ops/sec Job Queue in Rust to Replace Redis

#rust #javascript #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Christian Panov

Dec 29 '25

lwlog 1.5.0 Release

#showdev #tooling #opensource #performance

2 min read

Volodymyr

Dec 29 '25

SecureBitChat Desktop Is Here

#showdev #privacy #rust #opensource

2 min read

Vishal VeeraReddy

Feb 1

Run OpenClaw/Clawdbot for FREE with Lynkr (No API Bills)

#ai #opensource #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

Dec 27 '25

Aether Datafixers: A Lightweight Data Migration Framework for the JVM

#java #tutorial #opensource #productivity

8 min read

Jan 28

I built a brain for Claude Code because it keeps forgetting everything

#claudecode #ai #opensource #typescript

5 min read

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