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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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May 10 '25

What is Lombok? Unpacking the Open Source Business Model, Funding Strategies, and Community Impact

#lombok #java #opensource

7 min read

Jun 7 '25

A Script for Simpler Kubernetes Cluster Management for Lean Teams

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #cloudnative

6 min read

Code Area

May 10 '25

What Is Vibe Coding and How Will It Change the Developer's Role?

#ai #beginners #devops #opensource

2 min read

cdilorenzo

Jun 7 '25

Stop parsing “last 3 business days” by hand — I built a fluent date range parser for .NET

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

1 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Composio

Apr 22 '25

The guide to MCP I never had.

#programming #tutorial #mcp #opensource

22 min read

Joyce Lin

Apr 10 '25

When Code Meets Reality: Lessons from Building in the Physical World

#robotics #iot #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Gustavo A. Gutkoski

May 9 '25

Creating an AI Assistant for Technical Documentation – Part 1: Why and How I Started This Project

#python #fastapi #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 10 '25

From Source to Destination: Automating File Copy with cp in Linux

#cloudwhistler #devops #linux #opensource

2 min read

crypto programer

Apr 6

Why a Markdown File Beats a Message Bus

#ai #devtools #opensource #productivity

8 min read

crypto programer

Apr 6

I Built a Chess Engine with 5 AI Agents — Here's What Surprised Me

#ai #rust #opensource #programming

9 min read

May 9 '25

The Ultimate AI Experiment: When LLMs Play the Danganronpa Killing Game (Part 2)

#ai #python #nlp #opensource

21 min read

May 9 '25

The Ultimate AI Experiment: When LLMs Play the Danganronpa Killing Game (Part 1)

#ai #python #nlp #opensource

10 min read

Gittech

May 9 '25

You’re Not Building Projects. You’re Just Doing Homework.

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Apr 28 '25

Your First Open Source Win on GitHub: A Rad Guide to Crushing It! 🚀

#discuss #opensource #webdev #socialmedia

5 min read

May 9 '25

"Building a Lightweight Blockchain in Go from Scratch"

#go #blockchain #opensource #distributedsystems

1 min read

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