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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jan 12 '24

What is your favorite open source alternative to proprietary software?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

ShatilKhan

Jan 20 '24

Unleashing Open Source Potential: My Journey with Amazon OpenSearch🎯

#opensource #aws #codenewbie #opensearch

4 min read

Nacho Vazquez for LumberjackJS

Jan 20 '24

Announcing Lumberjack v16: Life improvements, deprecations and an ambicius roadmap

#webdev #angular #opensource #logging

2 min read

Eleni Grosdouli

Jan 20 '24

5-Step Approach: Dry Run Kubernetes Resources with ProjectSveltos

#kubernetes #opensource #tutorial #devops

8 min read

tanya rai

Jan 20 '24

Prototype to Prod: Any model, any modality 🔥

#beginners #programming #opensource #ai

1 min read

Jeffrey Ip

Jan 17 '24

‼️ Top 5 Open-Source LLM Evaluation Frameworks in 2026 🎉🔥

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

3 min read

Jan 20 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained

#webdev #opensource #javascript #nextjs

3 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Jan 19 '24

How to use your Thunderbird-generated OpenPGP key to set your Web Key Directory(WKD)

#thunderbird #webdev #openpgp #opensource

3 min read

Nik L.

Jan 20 '24

lowercase saves data? with Huffman encoding ex.

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Anindya Chatterjee

Jan 20 '24

Introducing Nitrite for Flutter : An embedded NoSQL database for Flutter

#flutter #nosql #database #opensource

4 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Jan 20 '24

Getting Familiar with ChatCraft

#opensource #react #security #webdev

5 min read

Jan 20 '24

Learn and first try on ChatCraft

#opensource #ai #typescript #npm

4 min read

Jan 9 '24

🎁 20 Open Source projects you shouldn't miss in 2026

#opensource #javascript #programming #beginners

9 min read

Lymah

Jan 19 '24

Wrapping Up the Journey: Reflections on the Final Week of Tublian's Open Source Internship

#opensource #softwareengineering #internships #programming

3 min read

Jan 20 '24

Abstract API Python SDK

#python #api #opensource

1 min read

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