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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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masem

Jul 5

🛠️ Devs, want automatic README generation + usage diagrams in every repo?

#opensource #typescript #github

1 min read

Jul 14

🚀 Kimi K2 is Here: The 1-Trillion-Parameter, Open-Source Beast That Just Dethroned ChatGPT & Claude—For Free!

#ai #opensource #llm #machinelearning

2 min read

SteamPixel

Jul 5

I built a reactive no-code flow engine that runs entirely in your browser, no login, no backend

#showdev #opensource #nocode #webdev

2 min read

Jun 30

🌟 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Freelancing as a Teen Designer

#opensource #career #coding #ai

2 min read

Jul 5

Choosing the Right Library Still Sucks — Here’s How I’m Using AI to Fix It

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Jun 30

Free Online Tools for Developers

#webdev #discord #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Quantum Risk Analytics, Inc

Jun 30

Try Pandemonium: A Real-Time COVID Risk App that needs your feedback

#opensource #webdev #programming #python

1 min read

Jun 30

`congratulate-dangerfile.ts` in Twenty, the #1 open-source CRM.

#danger #crm #twenty #opensource

4 min read

Nova Soft

Jun 30

I built a free text cleaning tool to remove emojis, HTML tags, and symbols — no install required

#python #productivity #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Carrie

Jun 30

SafeLine WAF v8.10.1 Release Notes

#waf #firewall #opensource

2 min read

Jun 30

Using LLM in Access Management with OpenAM and Spring AI as an example

#ai #infosec #opensource #webdev

10 min read

Muralidhar M Pala

Jun 30

ShellGPT for Sysadmins: Master These Lesser-Known CLI Tricks

#linux #shellgpt #sysadmin #opensource

2 min read

Jul 30

Level Up Your GitHub Repo with Professional Documentation 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 4: Getting Started with the Framework

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

5 min read

Jun 30

Your CRM is Holding Your Data Hostage. It's Time for a Jailbreak.

#crm #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Jun 30

Is Airtable Too Expensive? 5 Self-Hosted Alternatives Compared by Cost & Features

#opensource #lowcode #airtable #selfhosted

6 min read

Gerry Rasachocolate

Jun 30

Membangun Sistem Konten Digital yang Etis dan Tahan Uji di Era Informasi Cepat

#webdev #etikadigital #opensource #transformasidigital

3 min read

Jun 30

Adding Animated Subtitles to Videos with Python

#showdev #python #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Andy

Jun 30

Simplify Your JSON Workflow with JSONFormatter.online

#webdev #json #opensource

2 min read

Tope Taiwo

Aug 2

From Silence to Sound: Fixing Audio on Ubuntu Linux on my Samsung Galaxy Book

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #samsung

2 min read

Mak Sò

Jul 31

🧠 I Didn't Know Where It Was Going. I Just Kept Going.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #redis

3 min read

Aug 2

How to Use YINI Config Files in a Node.js App (with Real Examples)

#node #typescript #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jun 29

MY LINUX BOOT & DRIVE ISSUES

#programming #linux #opensource #dualboot

2 min read

Abijith B

Jun 29

Introducing Ogresync: Free, Open-Source Obsidian Sync Without the Subscription

#opensource #software #obsidian #productivity

6 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 2

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 1: The Problem with Traditional Spring Batch Scaling

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

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