Skip to content

DEV Community

Open Source

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.

submission guidelines

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

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Apr 10 '24

Unleash the Power of Angular 17+ with Ng-vibe Open-Source Libraries

#angular #npm #solidprinciples #opensource

4 min read

Victor Hugo Brandão

Apr 10 '24

O Guia Definitivo: Por que migrar para o linux (e como não morrer no processo)

#beginners #braziliandevs #opensource #community

9 min read

Tom

Mar 8 '24

Seeking Developer Feedback: A New Platform for Tech Support and Open Source Funding

#discuss #webdev #beginners #opensource

7 min read

AutoMQ

Apr 10 '24

Redis License Change: A Look at the Competitive Game between OSS and Cloud Computing Giants

#bsl #opensource #automq #bigdata

5 min read

lauren rae hanford for Tidelift

Apr 9 '24

The ROI of paying open source maintainers (in light of the xz utils backdoor)

#opensource #xz #security

7 min read

Schalk Neethling

Apr 10 '24

HTML: A Comprehensive Guide - Chapter One

#html #webdev #beginners #opensource

10 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Apr 9 '24

How to Bring Your Own Domain in SaaS Platforms?

#programming #tutorial #devops #opensource

6 min read

Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 9 '24

everything-rag: LLMs with your data, locally

#ai #opensource #docker #rag

2 min read

Apr 9 '24

Gorabbit: RabbitMQ supercharged for Go Applications

#go #rabbitmq #opensource #mqtt

7 min read

RE||EK for PhuirE Research

Apr 9 '24

Stratimux is a Function as Operating System

#typescript #mvp #poc #opensource

4 min read

Alex for DocuSignLog

Mar 29 '24

The Ultimate Guide to eSignature free: Navigating the World of Free Digital Signing Solutions

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Apr 9 '24

FLaNK AI 08 April 2024

#apachenifi #genai #opensource #apacheflink

5 min read

Mar 19 '24

My Journey Building Vidya: From Idea to Open Source

#flutter #opensource #android #programming

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Apr 8 '24

Release Radar • March 2024 Edition

#news #github #opensource #community

5 min read

Schalk Neethling

Apr 8 '24

12 Free Courses To Help You Develop More Secure Software - Shift Security Left

#security #learning #opensource

6 min read

Prasanth

Apr 9 '24

Introducing Podkast Audio Player: Your Customizable React Component for Seamless Audio Playback

#javascript #node #react #opensource

2 min read

Vaunt

Apr 9 '24

Why We Built Vaunt: Celebrating Developer Achievements in a Meaningful Way

#tooling #community #opensource

2 min read

Apr 8 '24

Lessons from open-source: Use window.trustedTypes to prevent DOM XSS.

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #react

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 5 '24

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 66)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Devs Daddy

Apr 8 '24

Unity UI Framework

#unity3d #opensource #gamedev #programming

2 min read

Giuliano Bellini

Apr 8 '24

Sniffnet 1.3 released!

#news #rust #opensource #networking

1 min read

Apr 8 '24

Building Poem Generator using Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #api #poem

6 min read

Seal

Apr 8 '24

Walrus vs. Terraform Enterprise: Expand your IaC to Kubernetes ecosystem!

#beginners #iac #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Mar 28 '24

GitHub profile README

#github #opensource #productivity #learning

1 min read

Apr 8 '24

Building User Story & Use Case Generator using Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #api #development

7 min read

loading...