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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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Cover image for Claude Code vs OpenClaw: When to Choose an AI Co-Pilot or Autonomous Agent

AgencyBoxx

Mar 31

Claude Code vs OpenClaw: When to Choose an AI Co-Pilot or Autonomous Agent

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

7 min read

Timmothy

Mar 31

I Get Paid to Write Open Source Code. Here's How You Can Too.

#opensource #github #career #beginners

2 min read

Mar 31

I built a free customs calculation platform with 140 features (240 countries)

#tradetech #opensource #webdev #api

1 min read

Kunal

Apr 4

Claude Code Alternatives: 3 Open-Source AI Coding Tools That Free You From Vendor Lock-In [2026]

#claudecode #aicoding #opensource #developertools

7 min read

Mar 31

HBR Says AI Agents Act Like Malware. Here's What To Do About It.

#security #ai #opensource #agents

3 min read

Nox Craft

Apr 1

Stop staring at Claude Code's statusline: here's one you can actually customize

#anthropic #rust #devops #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Claude Feels Slow. But Is Moving a Team to Open-Weight Models Actually the Fix?

Mar 30

Claude Feels Slow. But Is Moving a Team to Open-Weight Models Actually the Fix?

#ai #llm #opensource #performance

5 min read

Mar 30

what if MCP servers had a Lighthouse-style security score?

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for I studied 5 repos with 200K+ combined stars and built the tool they were all missing

AJAY SABLE

Mar 31

I studied 5 repos with 200K+ combined stars and built the tool they were all missing

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for Pourquoi les entreprises devraient adopter l'open source

Kat Keilty

Mar 30

Pourquoi les entreprises devraient adopter l'open source

#opensource #stratégie #productivité #francais

4 min read

김이더

Mar 31

Paperclip: The Open-Source OS for Running 20 AI Agents Like a Company

#ai #opensource #agentorchestration #sideprojects

5 min read

Cover image for Fedora- Just Another OS, But Really?

amin

Mar 30

Fedora- Just Another OS, But Really?

#opensource #outreachy

1 min read

Cover image for I Built a SaaS Boilerplate So You Never Start From Scratch Again

Huy Pham

Mar 31

I Built a SaaS Boilerplate So You Never Start From Scratch Again

#saas #nextjs #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for I built L0p4Map – open source network monitoring tool with interactive topology graph

L0pa

Mar 31

I built L0p4Map – open source network monitoring tool with interactive topology graph

#programming #python #opensource #hackathon

1 min read

Oscar Ricardo Sánche Gutierréz

Mar 31

RustDesk: Cómo crear una red de acceso remoto segura y privada

#rustdesk #remotedesktop #selfhosted #opensource

5 min read

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