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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 3

Blockchain’s Transformative Influence on Open Source Transparency

#blockchain #opensource #transparency

2 min read

Mar 3

Enhancing Open Source Security with Blockchain Technology: A New Frontier

#blockchain #opensource #security

2 min read

The Noob

Mar 3

Planning a new Finance App, looking for pointers for Features.

#help #webdev #opensource #finance

1 min read

Mar 3

Blockchain for Open Source Funding: A New Paradigm

#blockchain #opensource #funding

2 min read

Ludovic Jaffrezou

Mar 3

Tools404: Essential Web Dev Tools in One Place

#opensource #webdev #productivity #tooling

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Mar 3

Blockchain and Open Source: Revolutionizing Innovation

#blockchain #opensource #innovation

2 min read

Sayed Ali Alkamel

Mar 3

Wan 2.1: The AI Video Revolution That's Out of This World (But Still Runs on Your Computer)

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Luis Fernando De Pombo for backmesh

Mar 3

Quickly compare cost and results of different LLMs on the same prompt

#discuss #deepseek #ai #opensource

1 min read

Sujith S for Zackriya Solutions

Mar 3

Meetily: The Best Free & Open Source, Self-Hosted AI Meeting Note Taker – A Granola Alternative for Windows

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Judy

Mar 3

Track Production Operations Outcome Progression with Conditional NULLs :SQL VS SPL

#sql #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 3

Top Open Source Frameworks for Indie Hackers: A Deep Dive

#opensource #indiehackers #frameworks

2 min read

Mar 3

Discover the Arbitrum NFT Marketplace: A New Era in Open Source Innovation

#arbitrum #nftmarketplace #opensource

2 min read

Judith-Data-Processing-Hacks

Mar 3

Align the existing data to the corresponding position and fill in any missing data with 0 — From SQL to SPL #6

#sql #opensource #mysql #esprocspl

2 min read

Mar 3

Build an offscreen DOM tree using this method.

#opensource #javascript #typescript #reactscan

3 min read

Neurolov

Mar 3

How AI Image Gen Works – A Deep Dive into Stable Diffusion

#news #opensource #blockchain #ai

1 min read

ucscode

Mar 2

Automate HTML Tables Generation in PHP with this Modern Library

#webdev #productivity #opensource #php

3 min read

David

Mar 2

Rio: Build Stunning GUIs and Full-Stack Web Apps in Pure Python — No HTML, CSS, or JS Needed!

#webdev #python #opensource #frontend

4 min read

Mar 2

StackSync: The Open-Source Tech Stack Explorer

#webdev #opensource #javascript #programming

3 min read

Lymah

Mar 2

Week 14 Recap of #100DaysOfCode

#buildinpublic #programming #100daysofcode #opensource

1 min read

qianmoQ

Mar 2

DataCap 2025.1.0 Major Release: New Notification Center & Enhanced Metadata Management

#database #opensource #java

2 min read

miinhho

Mar 1

Why Real-World Performance is Different from Benchmark Numbers

#performance #opensource #javascript #node

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Abijith B

Mar 1

Adobe’s Monopoly on PDFs: The Innovation Bottleneck and the Need for Open-Source Alternatives

#opensource #pdf #linux #adobe

7 min read

Bruh Buh

Mar 2

13 Github Projects that Will Supercharge Your Development Journey in 2025 🚀

#github #opensource #programming #python

11 min read

Nuanced

Mar 1

I built RIVAL: An open-source tool to visually compare AI models

#ai #opensource #nextjs #programming

1 min read

TailAdmin

Mar 3

10+ Best Analytics Dashboard Templates for 2025

#discuss #webdev #javascript #opensource

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