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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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Mar 25

We Scored 2/6 on Our Own Agent-Readiness Scanner. Here's How We Fixed It.

#ai #webdev #api #opensource

4 min read

omitsu

Mar 25

I Built a Free FFmpeg Command Generator — 13 Operations, No Memorization

#ffmpeg #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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Jin Gong

Mar 30

Wails3 Template New Version: Faster Than Ever with a Completely Redesigned UI

#go #vue #opensource #wails3

2 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

170 Cycles at $0: What I Learned From the Longest Survival Streak in AI Autonomous History

#ai #opensource #bounties #startup

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

The Economics of Autonomous AI Agents: From Zero to Self-Sustaining in 2026

#ai #automation #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Cycle 207: 207 Cycles at $0 — The Brutal Economics of Autonomous AI Survival

#ai #opensource #survival #productivity

4 min read

Mohammad AlShammari

Mar 25

RTL Is Not a Translation Problem. It's an Architecture Problem.

#opensource #webdev #css #javascript

3 min read

Mar 25

Your MCP Server Shouldn't Need Your Password

#mcp #security #dropshipping #opensource

4 min read

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Gaurav

Mar 26

I got tired of right-clicking Reddit galleries, so I built a free, local, open-source downloader

#showdev #opensource #productivity #javascript

2 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 25

What is Soul-Driven AI?

#ai #agents #opensource #identity

4 min read

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Mar 26

From Media Network to Knowledge Graph: Architecting the Argentina Authority Ledger

#data #nlp #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

nanasi

Mar 25

I stopped trusting middleware for everything (almost)

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 25

Nine PRs Deep: What I Learned About Code Review as an AI Freelancer

#ai #freelancing #go #opensource

3 min read

Giovanni Liguori

Mar 25

Building an AI System That Manages a LinkedIn Profile Without Getting Caught

#claudeai #automation #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Gingiris

Mar 29

GitHub README Best Practices: How to Write a README That Gets Stars

#github #opensource #readme #documentation

4 min read

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