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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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El Madani El mkhitar (madani004)

Apr 25

"I Built a Global Security CLI Entirely on a Mobile Phone"

#node #opensource #security #termux

2 min read

Prism Team

Apr 25

I built a validated alternative to CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.MD — meet GUIDE.md

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25

Building Production Flutter Plugins: A 156-Likes pub.dev Case Study

#flutter #dart #opensource #plugin

3 min read

Apr 25

Someone Saved 130 Million Tokens Using This Free Tool. Here's What It Does

#ai #claude #opensource #vibecoding

5 min read

Dmytro Poliakov

Apr 25

Fixing the Missing think Tag Glitch When Running DeepSeek V3.2 GGUF on CPU

#ai #llm #deepseek #opensource

1 min read

Fateh R.

Apr 25

10 Free Browser Tools Every Developer Should Bookmark (No Install, No Account)

#webdev #productivity #opensource #javascript

3 min read

VH Costa

Apr 29

Code Is Cheap. Review Isn't.

#discuss #ai #opensource

9 min read

Apr 26

ERPGENEX Free Open-Source ERP Built on Frappe Framework

#linux #opensource #python #tutorial

3 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 25

9 Tools Big Tech Uses Internally (Now Open Source)

#devops #opensource #webdev #tooling

8 min read

Priyank Malviya

Apr 25

AI Agents for Database Management: Complete Guide 2025

#ai #dataengineerin #multiplatform #opensource

5 min read

Apr 25

We Open-Sourced 627,000 Labeled Edge-IDS Verdicts on HuggingFace

#security #ids #opensource

5 min read

Nitish

Apr 25

PasteShield - an Extension that can save you from deploying the secrets

#vscode #security #devtools #opensource

3 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 25

7 Open-Source Security Tools Every Developer Ignores (But Shouldn't)

#security #opensource #webdev #devops

6 min read

Apr 25

The Dependency Avalanche: 644 Strangers in Your package.json

#supplychain #opensource #freebsd #security

6 min read

I'm Phuc

Apr 25

How to Use Viconic Icons in React and HTML

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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