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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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Feb 17

I Built a Validation System That Works on Mars (No Blockchain, No Cloud, Under 2ms)

#opensource #ai #rust #python

3 min read

Munish Kumar sharma

Feb 7

I Shipped My First VS Code Extension — Here’s What I Learned

#vscode #opensource #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Deniz Topçuoğlu

Jan 25

Linux ve Dağıtımlarının Felsefesi

#linux #opensource

12 min read

Iduoad

Jan 26

I accidentally contributed to Terraform

#opensource #terraform #incus

5 min read

Jan 25

cpx - a modern, faster replacement for cp (up to 5 faster)

#rust #opensource #cli #programming

2 min read

Jan 24

From Cluster UI to Operational Plane: Lessons from the Kubernetes Dashboard Deprecation

#kubernetes #devops #devtron #opensource

4 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 25

Building Tamper-Proof Media Apps: C2PA vs CPP Deep Dive for Developers

#security #cryptography #ios #opensource

12 min read

Polliog

Jan 23

Self-Hosted Observability: $20/month vs $800/month

#opensource #devops #security #productivity

4 min read

Yvonne

Feb 17

How to Change Directory Permissions in Linux (and Why It Matters)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #rhcsa

2 min read

Jan 24

I Built a TUI to Replace `git commit` (and it's written in Go)

#go #git #opensource #productivity

3 min read

jst_kenzo

Jan 25

i accidentally built AGI for $30/month and nobody's ready for this conversation

#ai #opensource #productivity #clawdbot

6 min read

Feb 16

Why I Stopped Writing Markdown in VS Code (and What I Built Instead) 🚀

#webdev #productivity #markdown #opensource

3 min read

Jan 24

The Offline-First Struggle: How I Built a Robust Sync Engine for Flutter (SynapseLink)

#flutter #dart #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Arkforge

Feb 16

EU AI Act 2026: What I Learned Reading the Full Regulation

#ai #compliance #euaiact #opensource

5 min read

Jan 24

Why I stopped pasting API keys into random online converters (so I built a local one)

#typescript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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