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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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Jul 22 '25

12 Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software (For Developers)

#opensource #programming #developer

6 min read

NocoBase

Aug 7 '25

Top 20 Open Source AI Projects with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #ai #llm #mcp

14 min read

Aug 7 '25

Mina Scheduler: Feature-rich React/shadcn/ui Calendar Component

#react #ui #opensource #mobile

1 min read

Cody Marsengill

Aug 6 '25

marchat v0.2.0: Terminal Chat Now With Plugins and Encryption

#go #opensource #cli #docker

3 min read

AbdulGoniyy Adeleke Dare

Aug 6 '25

From Zero to Helpdesk Hero: Building an Enterprise IT Support System with GLPI

#glpi #itsm #systemadmin #opensource

7 min read

elneves

Aug 7 '25

Just released the world’s first LoRA for Qwen-Image, entire training toolkit open-sourced

#news #opensource #t2i #ai

1 min read

Michael Uanikehi for AWS Community Builders

Aug 6 '25

How to Handle Form Data in AWS Lambda APIs with Powertools OpenAPI Support

#aws #lambda #openai #opensource

5 min read

Wycliffe A. Onyango

Aug 6 '25

100 Days of DevOps: Day 3

#devops #linux #softwaredevelopment #opensource

1 min read

Miguel Paracuellos

Aug 6 '25

OpenAI Just Went Open Source (For Real This Time)

#ai #openai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Jul 26 '25

I Accidentally Discovered a Hidden Gem for Testing Premium AI Models (Completely Free!)

#ai #devto #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Alissa V. for PullFlow

Aug 5 '25

I Tried 5 Rising GitHub Tools for 2025 (Here's What Stood Out)

#discuss #webdev #opensource #programming

4 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Aug 6 '25

How to Install & Run OpenAI GPT-OSS Locally?

#openai #opensource #gptoss #ai

16 min read

Aug 6 '25

OpenAI’s GPT-OSS Models vs Claude 4.1: How Open-Weight and Closed-Source AI Are Redefining the Future

#ai #opensource #openai #anthropic

4 min read

Aniket Raj

Aug 6 '25

It's Alive! Project KARL is Now Open Source.

#showdev #kotlin #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jul 31 '25

Using GitHub Copilot to Manage Issues (and Save Time)

#githubcopilot #productivity #opensource #management

3 min read

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