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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 12

How I Contributed to Kestra: A Beginner’s Perspective

#opensource #frontend #programming #javascript

4 min read

Jan 13

OS: Public IP project

#network #node #opensource #devops

1 min read

Dmitriy A.

Feb 12

📦 spiderable-middleware update

#webdev #opensource #seo #npm

1 min read

Jan 9

Navigating the Complexities of Open-Source Tool Architecture: Advanced Strategies for Success

#ai #tooling #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Anupam Chakrawarti

Feb 12

10 of my favorite open-source android apps on F-droid

#opensource #fdroid #android

2 min read

Feb 11

Game Changing Improvements to ArtistAssistApp in February 2025

#showdev #opensource #react #pwa

8 min read

Pichandal

Feb 12

Missing Auto Ticket Creation in Redmine? Here’s the Solution!

#webdev #redmine #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11

Exploring Dual Licensing in Open Source Software

#monetizeopensource #duallicensing #opensource #commercialization

2 min read

hayerhans

Feb 11

Web Automation in Plain English: Browser Use Changes Everything

#ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Yilia for API7

Feb 11

API Management vs API Gateway: A Detailed Comparison

#api #apigateway #opensource #tutorial

14 min read

Clinton Ekekenta for FastApply

Feb 11

How to Run DeepSeek Locally Using LM Studio(For Free)

#deepseek #deepseekr1 #opensource #llm

2 min read

Feb 10

10 DeepSeek R1 Prompts for Coding That Actually Save You Time.

#deepseek #opensource #ai #productivity

3 min read

Clinton Ekekenta for FastApply

Feb 11

How to Install and Run DeepSeek-1 Locally on Windows (For Free)

#deepseek #deepseekr1 #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Suraj

Feb 11

My LFX Mentorship Experience

#cloudforet #linuxfoundation #cloudnative #opensource

3 min read

Simplr

Feb 11

Milvus: Your Vector Database Powerhouse – A Deep Dive

#vectordatabase #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Feb 6

10 Must-Know Open Source Platform Engineering Tools for AI/ML Workflows

#programming #ai #opensource #devops

6 min read

Feb 10

Bind Mount

#docker #opensource #bindmount #cloud

4 min read

Hishantik Sarkar

Feb 11

Gaming on Linux Using Wine/Proton with DXVK & Lutris: A Complete Guide

#linux #opensource

3 min read

Feb 10

🌦️ Responsive React Weather Forecast App – Open-Source Project 🚀

#react #webdev #opensource #githubprojects

1 min read

Feb 21

10 Open-Source Documentation Frameworks to Check Out

#webdev #documentation #opensource

7 min read

techtech

Feb 10

🔊 New Open Source Podcast

#techtalks #podcast #opensource

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 20

Our Project Got 100 First Stars on Github🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Feb 10

DeepSeek-R1: Redefining the Reinforcement Learning in AI

#deepseek #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

zvone187

Jan 30

How We Made Sure Big Companies Can’t Steal Our Code

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #startup

3 min read

Feb 10

🚀Introducing AnonyPost: A Social Media App for Anonymous Sharing

#javascript #react #socialmedia #opensource

1 min read

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