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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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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 16 '25

Improved Security Controls and A New Home for Security

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Hugo Jose

Jul 18 '25

Showcase: NaturalCron — Human-readable recurrence expressions for .NET

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

1 min read

Jul 17 '25

Odyssey :-Business Tourism 🚀 — Redefining Travel Discovery for the Modern Explorer

#react #opensource #azure #leaftetmap

3 min read

Judy

Jul 17 '25

Simulating Multiple-Layer Loop to Solve Logical Problems

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

6 min read

Ryo Suwito

Jul 17 '25

The Economic Reality Behind Stallman's Four Freedoms: Why Open Source Became Corporate Exploitation

#webdev #programming #linux #opensource

4 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 15 '25

Stripe-To-Postgres Sync Engine as standalone Library

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 15 '25

Supabase Analytics Buckets with Iceberg Support

#programming #productivity #opensource #database

4 min read

Jun 12 '25

React Native 0.80 Oficial: Saiu! O Que Mudou de Verdade?

#react #reactnative #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jul 16 '25

If You’re Still Copy-Pasting from Stack Overflow, Read This

#nextjs #react #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Romina Elena Mendez Escobar

Jul 16 '25

MedGemma: Google’s Open-Source AI Model for Healthcare

#ai #programming #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Jul 16 '25

🥊 Kimi K2 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro: The 2025 Smack-Down No One Saw Coming

#ai #opensource #gemini #machinelearning

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 14 '25

Supabase UI: Platform Kit

#webdev #programming #opensource #frontend

3 min read

marcosomma

Jul 16 '25

🔥 De‑constructing Cognition and Why LLMs Can’t Replicate It

#ai #machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource

4 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 14 '25

Introducing JWT Signing Keys

#webdev #programming #opensource #database

5 min read

DASWU

Jun 12 '25

NFS to JuiceFS: Building a Scalable Storage Platform for LLM Training & Inference

#opensource

9 min read

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