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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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Siarhei Huzarevich

Jun 24

Building AI Low-Code Platform in Angular — Part 2: Creating Your First Flow

#angular #webdev #lowcode #opensource

4 min read

May 21

Wikidata Launches WikidataStories Campaign to Showcase Global Impact of Open Data Projects

#opendata #wikidata #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Chris Yaowen Zhang

Jun 24

Open-Source AI Stacks for E-Commerce (2025 Guide)

#ecommerce #opensource #rag #ai

7 min read

Jun 24

Lock, Java, and two nulls: XMage edition

#java #opensource #xmage #unittest

12 min read

Johnny Santamaria

Jul 12

Product sense - Intro to Keyshade

#security #opensource #programming #softwareengineering

2 min read

Ameh Mathias Ejeh

Jun 24

The Importance of Leveraging AI to Learn

#ai #development #programming #opensource

2 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 24

How to Install DeepSeek Nano-VLLM Locally?

#deepseek #llm #ai #opensource

10 min read

krufuake

May 21

Sleeping while Selling: How I Automated My FunPay Store with a Python Bot (and You Can Too!)

#python #opensource #automation #telegram

3 min read

Jun 24

Django Interview Questions & Key Concepts – Part 5

#python #programming #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jun 24

The Best ngrok alternative for Mac: Tunnelmole - Open Source

#ngrok #mac #tunneling #opensource

4 min read

May 21

callsites usage in n8n source code to get callsites from the V8 stack trace API

#opensource #callstack #v8 #n8n

4 min read

Vin Cooper

Jun 24

Designing Incentives That Scale: How Broker Models Empower DeFi Platforms Beyond Tokenomics

#webdev #productivity #career #opensource

2 min read

Jun 23

👁️‍🗨️ The Haunting of AquaScript: Movies Challenge Has Begun...

#frontend #frontendchallenge #aquascript #opensource

2 min read

Jigz for ZeroOpenSource™

May 21

🚀@zeroopensource/pack-packages v0.0.2 is live!

#opensource #npm #javascript #typescript

1 min read

Priyanshu Verma

Jun 23

MindsDB Made It Easy, I Made It Hard: Building an AI-Powered Knowledge Map

#mindsdb #ai #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jun 23

wtfutil/wtf release v0.44.0 and my contribution long forgotten

#opensource #cli #github

3 min read

Jigz for ZeroOpenSource™

May 21

🚀@zeroopensource/pack-packages v0.0.1 is live!

#opensource #npm #typescript #javascript

1 min read

May 20

Day 8: Let’s Get Greppy – Finding Text Like a Pro in RHEL 9

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #beginners

2 min read

May 20

Day 7 – “TOP Secret Info: Monitoring Your Linux System Like a Pro (Sorta)”

#linux #beginners #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

Jun 23

The David vs. Goliath Playbook: How Small Teams Can Build Big Tech-Caliber AI Customer Experiences

#ai #webdev #career #opensource

2 min read

Abhishek Singh Kushwaha

May 20

Cross-Platform Image Viewer on Steroids: SnapSort v1.0.0

#news #opensource #python #gui

2 min read

ankurclub

May 20

How I Built a Free AI Tool That Converts Any Video to Subtitles, Transcripts & Summaries

#ai #opensource #webdev #python

1 min read

May 20

Meet DevTrack: The CLI Productivity Tool for Developers 🚀

#ai #productivity #python #opensource

1 min read

Jun 23

Windows Lockdown Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Kiosk Mode on Windows 11

#security #kiosk #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Gao Dalie (Ilyass)

Jun 23

MemoryOS MCP + RAG Agent That Can Remember Anything

#datascience #ai #opensource #llm

10 min read

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