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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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Federico Raffoni

Oct 15

Why We Built Another AI Framework (And Why You Might Care)

#ai #python #opensource #programming

5 min read

Sivaram

Oct 15

MdBin: Share Beautiful Rendered Markdown Instead of Raw Code

#markdown #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

nyaomaru

Oct 15

Building Type Guards Like LEGO Blocks: Making Reusable Logic with is-kit

#typescript #programming #opensource #coding

4 min read

SetraTheX

Oct 15

Pagonic: My 10-Month Journey to Build a WinRAR Alternative

#python #vibecoding #ai #opensource

11 min read

Plínio Balduino

Oct 14

Depurando um crash de use-after-free no meniOS

#operatingsystem #osdev #ptbr #opensource

6 min read

Oct 15

Why Copilots Are the New Shadow IT

#ai #opensource #leadership #productivity

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 15

# 0delay (Zero-Delay) My alternative File transfer system for Linux computers and aws EC2 servers

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Luc_C

Oct 15

Free URL Shortener

#showdev #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Konstantinos Passadis | Azure MVP | MCT

Oct 14

Orbit v0.3.0 - Next-Generation Version Control System

#vcs #orb #rust #opensource

5 min read

Oct 15

🚀 Building a CSS DevTool in Public (6 Hours/Week Challenge)

#css #webdev #opensource #programming

1 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 14

Bridging Worlds: AI's Breakthrough in Nepali Sign Language

#a11y #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

Akshat Raj

Oct 14

I Built a Mental Wellness AI with Python + Streamlit (Complete Tutorial)

#python #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Mike

Oct 15

Unlocking the Power of Open Source: How Collaboration Fuels Innovation in Software Development

#opensource #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Judy

Oct 15

Is SPL more difficult or easier than SQL?

#discuss #programming #opensource #sql

15 min read

Yash Raj

Oct 15

WTH is openFGA and implementing Role-Based Access Control in GO servers.

#architecture #opensource #security #go

6 min read

Oct 14

Pawn Appétit: Professional Chess Analysis, Zero Cost

#chess #opensource #rust #tauri

2 min read

Lymah

Oct 14

Getting started with Goose on Windows

#goose #ai #opensource #mcp

12 min read

Oct 14

Looking for Feedback on my .NET library - CliInvoke

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

2 min read

Oct 15

What Is Open Source and Why It Matters ?

#opensource #devdiscuss #development #github

2 min read

artyom7777

Oct 14

Game Engine 3 — A Shell for Visual Game Programming in Python

#programming #software #gamedev #opensource

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Sanjay Kumar Sah

Oct 14

🎉 From Hackathon Idea to Super Contributor — My Hacktoberfest 2025 Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 14

The State of Apache Iceberg v4 - October 2025 Edition

#dataengineering #architecture #opensource #database

6 min read