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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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Danh Hoang Hieu Nghi

Aug 27 '25

Building PoC Agents in Minutes

#opensource #ai #softwareengineering

3 min read

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Mr Punk da Silva

Aug 26 '25

Show HN: Zoom Through 100K Pages of BYTE Magazine in One Searchable Archive

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Mr Punk da Silva

Aug 26 '25

Show HN: Explore the history of any GitHub repository like a code archaeologist

#discuss #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Sadeed Bin Sadik

Jul 25 '25

💡 Supercharge Your Git Workflow with AI — Introducing ai-git-cli (Open for Contributions!)

#ai #python #opensource #github

2 min read

Jul 23 '25

🚀 Seamless Agent Switching in Robots-AI – No More Restarting the Chat!

#ai #opensource #react #webdev

1 min read

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Jul 23 '25

Why I Built StyleXui

#css #opensource #tailwindcss #bootstrap

3 min read

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Kevin Ly for AlgoSync

Aug 6 '25

Open Source vs. Closed Source Software

#discuss #programming #opensource #learning

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jul 24 '25

400+ Contributors! Apache SeaTunnel Becomes a Global Hotspot for Open-Source Collaboration

#opensource #seatunnel #github #programming

3 min read

Jul 23 '25

CyberPersona – Open Source Fake Identity Generator for Red Teaming & OSINT

#opensource

1 min read

itsis

Aug 20 '25

I Built a Tool to Stop Explaining My Codebase to AI Every Single Time

#ai #opensource #devops

3 min read

Jul 23 '25

Tomorrow kicks off "30 Days, 30 Banger FOSS Tools!" Discover a game-changing open-source tool daily. Don’t miss out!

#discuss #opensource #tooling #productivity

1 min read

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Aug 26 '25

So You Want to Build an Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT for Teams

#chatgpt #opensource #ai #codenewbie

6 min read

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NocoBase

Jul 23 '25

Top 6 Developer Tools with RBAC Support

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #tooling

6 min read

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Tokyo Dal

Jul 23 '25

Introducing AI For Developers Project: The Home for AI-Powered Development

#showdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

ddamno

Jul 27 '25

InCoder | JetBrains Plugin

#langchain #ai #opensource #github

2 min read

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