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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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sanjay

Jan 11

I Built an Open-Source ARK ASA Server Manager (Desktop EXE Tool)

#opensource #gamedev #software #gameserver

1 min read

Jan 11

Building Developer SSS – An Open-Source Learning Platform for Developers

#programming #frontend #opensource #deved

1 min read

Antim Prisăcaru

Feb 3

Building Type-Safe Dynamic Forms with Angular Signal Forms

#angular #webdev #typescript #opensource

11 min read

Jan 11

I made a free webapp for learning piano notes

#webdev #ai #opensource #music

1 min read

Virendra Jadhav

Jan 11

Introducing app_pulse: a lightweight request signal collector for Ruby apps

#ruby #rails #opensource #rubygems

2 min read

Jan 11

MCP Token Limits: The Hidden Cost of Tool Overload

#mcp #devops #ai #opensource

5 min read

keke lele

Jan 11

I Built a Free Arabic Calligraphy Generator - Transform Text into Beautiful Islamic Art

#showdev #webdev #opensource #design

2 min read

Jan 11

Automate Website Health: Building a High-Performance Dead Link Checker with Python

#python #seo #automation #opensource

2 min read

Jan 11

Is AI Quietly Killing Open Source?

#ai #opensource #llm #tailwindcss

4 min read

Feb 12

I Built a One-Command macOS VM Tool for Proxmox 9

#proxmox #macos #homelab #opensource

4 min read

Rahul Dass

Jan 11

Why I Stopped Using LLMs to Verify LLMs (And Built a Deterministic Protocol Instead)

#ai #python #opensource #architecture

2 min read

king

Jan 11

New Incremark DevTools Release: Built with Svelte, Now with Multi-Parser Support

#devtools #svelte #opensource #markdown

2 min read

The Nexus Guard

Feb 14

Why I Built AIP: Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents

#ai #security #opensource #python

4 min read

Feb 13

AI Skills Have an Inheritance Problem (Here's the Fix)

#ai #programming #opensource #claudecode

4 min read

Coding Dev

Jan 11

Things I Wish I knew before my first GitHub Contribution

#webdev #programming #opensource #github

2 min read

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