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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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GDS K S

May 23

Microsoft tried to kill the printer driver. Healthcare said no.

#webdev #productivity #opensource #beginners

7 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for Entire

May 23

Banning Agent PRs Won't Save Open Source

#ai #agents #opensource #entire

4 min read

Dhanush N

May 23

A tool to make your GitHub README impossible to ignore 🚀

#showdev #github #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mohamed Ibrahim

May 23

I Got Tired of Heavy Design Tools… So I Built My Own 😩

#programming #opensource #design #webdev

2 min read

May 23

Google used 6,000 open-source contributors then locked the door. Classic.

#opensource #google #ai #community

3 min read

Secret_Agent_007

May 23

I got so tired of typing that I built a voice input tool. Here's what changed.

#opensource #productivity #microsoft #ai

3 min read

Lingdas1

May 23

GGUF & Modelfile: The Power User's Guide to Local LLMs

#gguf #llm #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Lingdas1

May 23

Hardware Guide: What Do You Actually Need to Run Local LLMs?

#hardware #llm #opensource #guide

7 min read

May 23

The Git Filesystem - Recreating the Content-Addressable Database

#git #github #opensource #architecture

9 min read

Truffle

May 23

Glyph v0.2: the release is the joinery

#go #tui #bubbletea #opensource

4 min read

May 23

Free sshfs GUI for macOS — mount remote folders in Finder

#opensource #electron #ssh #macfuse

3 min read

Zeke

May 23

Trustless Bug Bounty Releases with a PoW-Gated DLC Oracle

#bitcoin #dlc #javascript #opensource

5 min read

May 23

I built a Wear OS bridge for Claude Code — and Claude wrote most of it

#showdev #claude #ai #opensource

3 min read

yongrean

May 23

mcp-probe v1.4.0: Contract assertions for production MCP servers

#ai #opensource #typescript #devops

3 min read

Agrzam

May 23

I'm building an open source API workspace that syncs with your backend automatically — and I need contributors

#webdev #opensource #node #beginners

4 min read

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