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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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Aurelio Buarque

May 27

Optimizing Struct Layout and Padding in Practice

#go #programming #devops #opensource

6 min read

Apr 24

Best Open Source Licenses: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers and Innovators

#opensource #licensing #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

Clay

May 28

Top 5 AI Tools You Can Host on Your Own Server (and Why You Should)

#ai #server #opensource

4 min read

Wolfgang Rathgeb

May 27

Self-Host Your Own URL Shortener with Zero Database Setup

#svelte #docker #sqlite #opensource

2 min read

Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed

Jun 11

Locusthub Platform

#machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Mayowa Obisesan

May 28

Microsoft "Edit" vs Vim: Is Vim dethroned?

#microsoft #rust #opensource

5 min read

May 7

Empowering Financial Literacy through Open Source Innovation

#opensource #financialliteracy #financialinclusion

8 min read

May 28

Top Chrome Extensions Every Developer Needs in 2025

#programming #javascript #ai #opensource

1 min read

May 28

TiEcon 2025: Cultivating Cultural Capital in the Age of AI

#tiecon #ai #opensource #security

4 min read

Apr 24

Jotai usage in Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

#jotai #react #opensource #docmost

3 min read

Subhojit

Apr 24

🚀 Introducing Voca HTTP: A Lightweight Fetch-Based HTTP Client

#webdev #opensource #programming #javascript

2 min read

Shantanu

Jun 11

Revolutionary API Gateway

#dotnet #architecture #opensource #api

1 min read

Denis

Jun 11

I Made a Free Alternative to CleanMyMac in 200 Lines of Python

#showdev #python #macos #opensource

1 min read

May 28

Mitt, a tiny 200b functional event emitter.

#mitt #nuqs #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

May 17

Unveiling ISC License Modified: A Comprehensive Exploration of Open Source Fair Code Licensing

#isclicensemodified #opensource #blockchain

7 min read

Joshua

Jun 11

My first Open Source contribution

#opensource #documentation #docusaurus #hugo

4 min read

NocoBase

Apr 24

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Support Variables on the Left Side of Linkage Rule Conditions

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

16 min read

May 7

If we haven't met yet, I am Aditya Bhattad—and I am here to build!

#webdev #opensource #blockchain #ai

5 min read

Mayank Kumar Chaudhari

Jun 11

Introducing Kosha – A Minimal, Modern State Manager for React

#react #typescript #opensource #redux

2 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 14

Menciptakan Bahasa Pemrograman Sendiri: Inilah Earl

#programming #opensource #indonesia #devjournal

2 min read

Jun 11

Atomic State Management: Why Nucleux Stands Out from Jotai and Zustand

#webdev #react #reactnative #opensource

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 23

User Management in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

5 min read

Nomadev

May 23

So I Hooked My AI Agent Up with Notion. Here's What Happened.

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Xeno Studios Software Development

May 27

Educationer - An Open Source Online Education Platform and Management Tool

#opensource #webdev #devops #learning

2 min read

May 25

A2A and MCP Combined Implementation

#a2a #mcp #llm #opensource

8 min read

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