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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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Alicia

Mar 31

I built pecto – it reads your code and tells you what it does

#rust #opensource #webdev #programming

1 min read

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Transpective_dev_team

Apr 23

Ribbon: cool smart alias tool for windows

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mar 30

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

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

2 min read

Timmothy

Mar 31

How to Find and Win Open Source Bounties in 2026

#opensource #github #career #beginners

3 min read

Hussein Mohamed

Mar 30

Why Every AI Tool You Use Forgets You (And How I Fixed It)

#ai #mcp #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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Grujowmi

Mar 30

SecureWipe: ANSSI and NIST-compliant secure disk erasure, because rm -rf isn't enough

#news #security #python #opensource

3 min read

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Mar 31

7 Asterisk Development Mistakes That Only Show Up After You Go Live

#discuss #webdev #opensource #devops

6 min read

Abin

Mar 30

Agents Behind Walls: Who Will Push Over the First Brick

#ai #agents #alibaba #opensource

11 min read

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s3atoshi_leading_ai

Apr 3

AI Will Fundamentally Reshape How Advertising Works. Here's the Structural Analysis.

#ai #advertising #opensource #aistrategy

4 min read

Mar 31

Why I split my AI coding workflow into Director and Coder

#ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

abdelali Selouani

Mar 28

Show DEV: PressArk - Talk to Your WordPress Site Instead of Clicking Through It

#showdev #wordpress #ai #opensource

2 min read

Vladimir Desyatov

Apr 3

AisthOS: What if your OS compiled UP instead of down?

#ai #opensource #privacy #edgeai

4 min read

Mar 30

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Jonah Reed

Mar 30

I Built an AI Agent That Thinks in Notion (And Can Give His Brain a Makeover)

#showdev #notionmcpchallenge #ai #opensource

7 min read

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Sruthi a

Mar 30

I Built a Zero-Config Secret Manager in Rust Because .env Files Are Security Theater

#security #devops #opensource #rust

2 min read

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