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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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Feb 18

Open-source is like all eyes looking at it, with Cam Saul, Metabase

#podcast #clojure #opensource #python

1 min read

Judith-Data-Processing-Hacks

Feb 18

Do Ordered Grouping and Aggregation within Groups — From SQL to SPL #1

#programming #sql #database #opensource

2 min read

Feb 18

[Part 1] How to install npm packages programmatically?

#opensource #typescript #npm #microgenerator

4 min read

Gittech

Feb 17

30 Trending GitHub Repositories You Can’t Afford to Miss in 2025!

#github #webdev #programming #opensource

10 min read

Feb 17

Introducing LetterLens: A Powerful Open-Source Word Counter

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #tailwindcss

2 min read

Feb 17

Step-Audio: The First Production-Ready Open-Source Framework for Intelligent Speech Interaction

#ai #llm #tts #opensource

4 min read

Feb 17

Release 0.47.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action

#githubaction #opensource #release

1 min read

Deep Shah

Feb 17

🚀 How to Run Dolphin Uncensored AI Locally: A Step-by-Step Guide! 🦾

#ai #dolphinllm #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17

🚀 Build a Simple To-Do List App with React Native & Expo – TaskMate 📝

#opensource #mobile #reactnative #javascript

1 min read

Feb 17

🛰️ SpaceX Kotlin API Library – Open-Source Kotlin Library for SpaceX API Integration

#kotlin #opensource #androiddev #android

1 min read

Feb 17

Free and Open-Source Graphics Editing Tools

#tooling #opensource #free #editing

3 min read

Igor Fraga

Feb 17

Open Source: Start your Path to Contribution

#opensource #career #programming #java

3 min read

Joodi

Feb 16

Top 13 Most-Starred Open Source Next.js Projects on GitHub ⭐

#opensource #nextjs #javascript #react

3 min read

Sev

Feb 16

Should I Open Source My Project If a Better Alternative Exists?

#opensource

1 min read

Jan 14

Train LLM From Scratch

#ai #python #opensource #datascience

1 min read

Jan 14

Enhance Your App's Security with OTP-Agent

#javascript #security #opensource #programming

2 min read

Feb 17

Father - an NPM package development tool.

#npm #opensource #lobechat #zustandutils

3 min read

Feb 16

Human Regex Gets TypeScript's Magic Typing 🚀

#webdev #javascript #opensource #regex

3 min read

Ayush Bhartia for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Feb 16

The DeepSeek Revolution: The AI Game Changer You Need to Know About

#webdev #ai #opensource #deepseek

3 min read

jldec

Jan 13

3 essential elements for Web publishing

#webdev #contentwriting #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Feb 16

Create Realtime ChatApp Website Without Coding by Create.xyz 🔥 🚀

#opensource #ai #programming #productivity

1 min read

Feb 16

Pulumi Gestalt devlog #8

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

1 min read

Michael Michaelides

Jan 13

Sign up to our bug bounty platform!

#news #programming #career #opensource

1 min read

Margaret Julian

Jan 17

We launched an open-source Hydrogen theme on Remix

#opensource #frontend

1 min read

Artemiy Vereshchinskiy

Feb 16

Introducing RushDB: Zero-Config Instant Database for Modern Apps & AI Era

#database #opensource #webdev #devtools

9 min read

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