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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.

submission guidelines

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 #1 on SWE-bench lite, achieved fully autonomously by open-source Refact.ai Agent

Oleg Klimov for Refact AI

May 5 '25

#1 on SWE-bench lite, achieved fully autonomously by open-source Refact.ai Agent

#programming #ai #llm #opensource

6 min read

Apr 1 '25

New Python Language

#programming #python #productivity #opensource

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 5 '25

📁Mastering cp and mv Commands in Linux (Plus Related cmds)

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #cloud

3 min read

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Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Apr 30 '25

Go doesn't believe in frameworks, but teams still need them

#go #opensource #programming #productivity

5 min read

Nikolas

Apr 1 '25

Call for feedback to the dev community

#api #community #testing #opensource

1 min read

May 19 '25

Open Source Spotlight: Innovations and Funding Strategies – A Deep Dive into April 2025 Updates

#opensource #innovation #funding

10 min read

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May 19 '25

How I Tried to Save My Google Play Developer Account — and Ended Up Making a App for Crypto

#opensource #reactnative #mobile #android

8 min read

Cover image for 🚀 Automate Your Releases with gitag: The Ultimate CLI for Semantic Versioning

May 5 '25

🚀 Automate Your Releases with gitag: The Ultimate CLI for Semantic Versioning

#webdev #devops #git #opensource

3 min read

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BestCodes

May 4 '25

Phi 4 Reasoning Benchmarks, Model Specs, and Comparisons

#ai #opensource #programming #learning

3 min read

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Alex Enson

May 5 '25

Scripting Series – Part 7 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

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RisingWave Labs

Apr 23 '25

Every Database Will Support Iceberg — Here's Why

#discuss #opensource #news #database

5 min read

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OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 4 '25

Ansible + Red Hat: The Automation Alliance Powering Next-Gen Enterprise Infrastructure

#cloudwhistler #redhat #ansible #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for Hover Bug: A Prankware Simulator. Based on the "Butterfly on Desktop" (text only) that will probably never touch the corner.

Saahen Sriyan Mishra

May 5 '25

Hover Bug: A Prankware Simulator. Based on the "Butterfly on Desktop" (text only) that will probably never touch the corner.

#cpp #opensource #winapi #programming

6 min read

Cover image for 🚀 Cloud That Makes Sense. Finally.

Apr 5 '25

🚀 Cloud That Makes Sense. Finally.

#cloud #cloudcomputing #qumulus #opensource

1 min read

May 5 '25

Connect your AI to any tool and build reliable AI agents using ACI.dev

#opensource #nextjs #ai #mcp

3 min read

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