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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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Chethan

Sep 4 '25

Understanding Linux Permissions: A Beginner-Friendly Guide for DevOps 🚀

#devops #linux #learning #opensource

2 min read

Aug 1 '25

Building MCP one: A Unified Hub for Model Context Protocol Servers

#ai #mcp #opensource #python

5 min read

Jayant Harilela

Aug 1 '25

Unlocking the Future: Building Conversational AI Agents with Persistent Memory

#cognee #aiagents #frameworks #opensource

15 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Aug 1 '25

How Legal Language Loses Responsibility When It Becomes Executable

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

Aug 15 '25

Why I’m Building Cloak UI — The Pain of UI Vendor Lock-In 🚀

#designsystems #ui #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Matteo De Micheli

Aug 2 '25

Why I Built Sounds Social with Meteor.js, React, Tailwind & Bytescale

#javascript #react #meteor #opensource

3 min read

kvendingoldo for AWS Community Builders

Aug 1 '25

How to create AWS Serverless Valkey via OpenTofu

#elasticache #opensource #opentofu #terraform

8 min read

Sep 4 '25

GNU openVBS - VBScript,Reborn

#programming #python #opensource #automation

5 min read

Saksham Solanki

Sep 2 '25

I built a simple todo app that actually gets out of your way

#javascript #tooling #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sep 4 '25

IMake: Bringing Builds Back to Makefile’s Essence — An Unprecedentedly Simple Experience

#linux #opensource #devops #programming

5 min read

idanlodzki

Sep 3 '25

Early-stage open-source project: OpsiMate

#opensource #monitoring #devops

1 min read

UUSEC Technology

Aug 1 '25

OpenResty Manager

#webdev #programming #opensource #security

2 min read

Ayberk

Jul 31 '25

Lessons Learned Shipping My First OSS Project with Next.js + shadcn

#opensource #ai #nextjs #machinelearning

2 min read

yz-yu

Aug 1 '25

LLM Fighter: A Game-Based Approach to Exploring AI Agent Capabilities

#showdev #opensource #ai #llm

3 min read

howard hua

Sep 4 '25

Wplace 63/64-color palette — free download (HEX & GPL)

#design #pixelart #resources #opensource

1 min read

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