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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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Leo

Jun 24

Cursor acquires Continue and gives its users a July 15 export deadline

#cursor #continue #aicodingassistants #opensource

2 min read

Jun 24

ImageX hit 10 stars, got a contributor, and shipped 3 new features :) here's what happened

#python #opensource #beginners #cli

2 min read

Jpn Mif

Jun 24

Building "Kawaiintu OS": Bypassing GTK4 Theme Limits with Python Dynamic Hooks

#showdev #linux #python #opensource

2 min read

Manuk

Jun 24

Making an open-source CRM AI-native (laravel/ai in production)

#laravel #php #opensource #ai

5 min read

Jun 24

Local Agents: Why Gemma 4 12B Agentic is the Sweet Spot for Production

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Jun 24

Issue-Orchestrator: A Software Engineering Control Plane for Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #github

2 min read

Jun 24

How We Reverse-Engineered the SketchUp (.skp) Binary Format to Build a Pure JS/Python 3D Viewer

#webdev #python #opensource #sketchup

3 min read

Wolf for Symfinity

Jun 24

The rule behind every Symfinity package

#php #symfony #softwaredevelopment #opensource

2 min read

Abhijith P Subash

Jun 24

I built a clipboard manager in Rust because every other one made me pick two of three

#opensource #productivity #rust

4 min read

Wolf for Symfinity

Jun 24

Why Symfony projects feel more fragmented than ever

#php #symfony #softwaredevelopment #opensource

3 min read

Jun 24

Who Actually Uses ASCII Art in 2024? (And Why I Built a Browser Tool for Them)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Jun 24

We Built the DemonDie Frontend Quiz Arena 2026 — Here’s Why

#webdev #frontend #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jun 24

Our graph database was abandoned upstream — here's the 6-line migration (EngramGraph 0.3.0)

#database #javascript #opensource #security

2 min read

Jakub Jabłoński

Jun 24

Start an AI Agent Project, Not Just an Agent

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Dan

Jun 24

Built an open-source AI malware analyzer for cybersecurity students

#showdev #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

1 min read

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