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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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Giorgi Kobaidze

Apr 26

15 Essential Sections Every README Needs: Give Your Project What It Deserves

#documentation #opensource #tutorial #development

11 min read

Nicolas Martinez

Apr 29

Open source and sovereignty: anatomy of a strategic misunderstanding

#ai #opensource #cloud #sovereignty

19 min read

Alex

Apr 29

I spent 2 years building the async Python task queue I wished existed

#showdev #python #opensource #performance

7 min read

SamxtnZ

Apr 29

I spent 2 weeks building a free Python script to migrate IMAP email — here's what I learned

#python #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jason Zhu

Apr 29

I Indexed 67,000 Open-Source AI Agent Projects. Here's What's Actually Inside.

#ai #opensource #mcp #claude

6 min read

hyhmrright

Apr 29

Why AI Code Review Misses Logic Bugs — And How Structured Execution Tracing Fixes It

#aitools #codereview #opensource #programming

4 min read

Hugo

Apr 29

I built Farol — AI agent observability in one decorator (open source)

#ai #python #devops #opensource

2 min read

Apr 29

ARForge v1.4.0 — Git-integrated model diffing for AUTOSAR Classic projects

#autosar #embedded #opensource #automotive

4 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 29

Complex UIs, Cross-App Workflows, Long Tasks: What GUI Agents Actually Unlock

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

4 min read

Apr 29

MoQ Support Is Now Available in Ant Media Server

#streaming #webrtc #quic #opensource

4 min read

Olebeng

Apr 29

We audited the same codebase twice. The score went down. The audit got better. Here is why.

#security #devops #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Apr 28

Why I Sign Every .exe With Sigstore - PC Workman v1.7.2 Release, Security-First Open Source

#programming #python #opensource #ai

7 min read

Justin Dah-kenangnon

Apr 29

Stop Typing "test@test.com" — Fill Any Form in One Click with FillKit

#webdev #productivity #testing #opensource

5 min read

Apr 29

94% of Published SKILL.md Files Skip the Spec's Two Most Basic Patterns

#ai #opensource #claude #devops

7 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 29

Kiwi-chan's Slow & Steady Climb: Logs, Tables, and a LOT of Pruning! 🥝

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

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