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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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Abdullah Al-Hakimi

Jul 24

🚀 [Open Source] SmoothMotion – Clean, Smooth Animations in Jetpack Compose

#kotlin #animation #jetpackcompose #opensource

1 min read

subhadip pahari

Aug 27

My new NPM package for cache 🚀

#node #npm #redis #opensource

2 min read

Aug 27

Microsoft is Open Sourcing Windows 11's UI Framework (WinUI 3) - Here's What Developers Need to Know

#microsoft #opensource #winui #development

4 min read

Suraj

Aug 27

Why NGINX Still Powers the Modern Web in 2025: Part 1

#nginx #devops #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Aug 27

Understanding WebSockets: A Beginner’s Guide to Real-Time Web Communication day 38 of system design basics

#programming #python #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Ryan J. Salva for Google AI

Sep 8

Beyond the terminal: Gemini CLI comes to Zed

#gemini #ai #zed #opensource

3 min read

Irene

Jul 24

The same supplier catalog issues, over and over again...

#opensource #cli #productivity #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Aug 26

How to Set Up an AWS Application Load Balancer for Your EC2 Instances

#loadbalancer #aws #ec2 #opensource

4 min read

Open Source SPL

Aug 27

Calculate the first N terms of the Fibonacci sequence--Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

3 min read

Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 28

Infoscava Plugin Creator: Expanding Analysis Capabilities

#python #opensource #security #tooling

1 min read

Muhammad Azis Husein

Jul 24

Showcase Your Dev.to Articles in Style

#devto #opensource #github #markdown

2 min read

Mr Punk da Silva

Aug 26

Show HN: Zoom Through 100K Pages of BYTE Magazine in One Searchable Archive

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Danh Hoang Hieu Nghi

Aug 27

Building PoC Agents in Minutes

#opensource #ai #softwareengineering

3 min read

Mr Punk da Silva

Aug 26

Show HN: Explore the history of any GitHub repository like a code archaeologist

#discuss #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Sadeed Bin Sadik

Jul 25

💡 Supercharge Your Git Workflow with AI — Introducing ai-git-cli (Open for Contributions!)

#ai #python #opensource #github

2 min read

Jul 23

🚀 Seamless Agent Switching in Robots-AI – No More Restarting the Chat!

#ai #opensource #react #webdev

1 min read

Jul 23

Why I Built StyleXui

#css #opensource #tailwindcss #bootstrap

3 min read

Kevin Ly for AlgoSync

Aug 6

Open Source vs. Closed Source Software

#discuss #programming #opensource #learning

3 min read

Aug 23

I built a bundle-saving UI tool and open-sourced it 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jul 24

400+ Contributors! Apache SeaTunnel Becomes a Global Hotspot for Open-Source Collaboration

#opensource #seatunnel #github #programming

3 min read

Jul 23

CyberPersona – Open Source Fake Identity Generator for Red Teaming & OSINT

#opensource

1 min read

Jul 23

Tomorrow kicks off "30 Days, 30 Banger FOSS Tools!" Discover a game-changing open-source tool daily. Don’t miss out!

#discuss #opensource #tooling #productivity

1 min read

NocoBase

Jul 23

Top 6 Developer Tools with RBAC Support

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #tooling

6 min read

Aug 26

So You Want to Build an Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT for Teams

#chatgpt #opensource #ai #codenewbie

6 min read

Tokyo Dal

Jul 23

Introducing AI For Developers Project: The Home for AI-Powered Development

#showdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

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