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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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LumGenLab

Aug 20

I Built a Ray Tracer That Runs on a Dinosaur PC and It's Cooking RTX 4090s

#opensource #pathtracing #cpp #rendering

4 min read

Sigzen Technologies

Jul 17

Why Customizable ERP Is the Future of Enterprise Software

#erp #enterprisesoftware #python #opensource

4 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Aug 20

10 Open-Source Projects You’ll Actually Use in 2025

#showdev #webdev #opensource #programming

5 min read

Chen Debra

Aug 20

How to Batch Kill Running Workflows in Apache DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #bigdata #programming

3 min read

Jay

Aug 20

A Personal Journey - Building My Own AI OS

#linux #opensource #ai #programming

2 min read

hopsayer

Jul 17

mpv vs VLC: Making mpv Comfortable to Use

#linux #opensource #tutorial #performance

2 min read

Calum

Jul 17

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752741

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Aug 20

Day 3 of Experimenting with Open Source AI

#ai #github #learning #opensource

4 min read

Aug 9

I Was Tired of Building Invoices, So I Built a Full-Stack React Document Designer

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Aug 20

🚀 Introducing ngxsmk-stripe: A Modern Angular Stripe Plugin

#angular #stripe #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Aug 20

Drop-in spinner for any Angular 17+ button (no CSS imports): ngxsmk-button-spinner

#angular #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Calum

Jul 17

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752720

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Siswoyo Siswoyo

Aug 19

10 DEV.to Features Every Member Should Know

#devto #opensource #developers #programming

3 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 30

Who Gave the Order? When AI Issues Commands Without a Speaker

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

2 min read

Aug 18

GSoC Week 11: Nearing the Finish Line with CircuitVerse

#gsoc #opensource #flutter #android

3 min read

ByteKnight

Jul 16

Snowflake

#privacy #webrtc #security #opensource

1 min read

Santhosh

Aug 13

I Scraped 120 Years of Olympic History — and You Can Too

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Aug 19

Developer Tooling #005

#webdev #opensource #github #productivity

1 min read

Andrii Poluosmak

Aug 19

Stop AI from Writing Random Code That Doesn't Fit Your Codebase 🤖

#vibecoding #claudecode #opensource #coding

4 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 16

How a 12% Tax Rule Becomes Code: Grammar, Law, and Machine Execution

#news #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Aug 18

The Hidden Commands Inside AI Bureaucracy

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

marcosomma

Aug 16

🧠Can AI Learn to Care?

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #rag

4 min read

Emmanuel

Jul 30

Never Sleep Again: How I Built AwakeLock, a Robust, Multi-Layered Solution for Web Wake Locks

#webdev #opensource #typescript #softwareengineering

6 min read

Aniket Raj

Aug 19

Introducing SCAN - A Must Have Plugin

#showdev #kotlin #devops #opensource

2 min read

Aug 8

Easy Lightweight Quantum Defense Program for Termux

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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