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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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Oct 10

What Every Developer Should Know About AI in 2025

#ai #webdev #developer #opensource

3 min read

Kay A

Oct 10

Why I Built an Open-Source Kit to Help Demystify OWASP ASVS Compliance

#opensource #security #tooling

2 min read

Roman Kondratev

Oct 14

Introducing RCParsing - brand new .NET framework for DSLs and data scrapers

#showdev #opensource #dotnet #programming

3 min read

Rec Gen

Oct 10

RecGen: a powerful tool to create recommendation systems

#opensource #python #nocode #expertsystem

5 min read

Mike

Oct 15

Unlocking the Power of Open Source: How Collaboration Fuels Innovation in Software Development

#opensource #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Mauro Mazzocchetti

Oct 10

The Missing Bridge: Running Java Seamlessly Inside Your Node.js App

#java #node #javascript #opensource

3 min read

ATIXAG

Oct 10

Ansible automation with AWX: an overview and how to get started

#awx #ansible #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Oct 10

OSD600 Release 0.2 Week 1 (Updated)

#beginners #github #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Nov 14

How I Built a Google Maps Scraper to Generate Leads for My New Agency (And Why I Open-Sourced It)

#javascript #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Oct 15

Regarding the use of PrimeNG: the impact of its license on commercial applications

#help #angular #opensource

1 min read

Aviral Srivastava

Nov 2

Docker Registry (Harbor) and Private Repositories

#docker #devops #opensource #security

5 min read

v. Splicer for Hidden Layer Media

Nov 12

remu.ii: Building the Ghost Before the Body

#discuss #esp32 #opensource #showdev

8 min read

DASWU

Oct 10

Zelos Tech Manages Hundreds of Millions of Files for Autonomous Driving with JuiceFS

#ai #opensource

7 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Oct 10

From Hours to Minutes: How Dmall Cuts Data Integration Costs to 1/3 with Apache SeaTunnel?

#programming #apacheseatunnel #datascience #opensource

8 min read

NocoBase

Oct 10

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

FERNANDO JOSEPH GBEDEGBE GBEYETIN

Oct 11

Collaborative Odoo 19 Community Development – Custom Modules & Benin Standardized Invoicing

#postgres #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

c1oudM0

Oct 9

Obfuscating Solana Transaction Trails with Custom Entropy (Rust)

#rust #solana #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Alex Zhong

Oct 10

Git Stars: Discover & Track Trending Open Source Projects on GitHub

#opensource #github #developers

1 min read

Oct 14

Stop Building AI Backends — Meet the Open-Source Vezlo AI Assistant Server

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Prathmesh barot

Oct 21

Building Rynex: A 175KB TypeScript Framework Without Virtual DOM

#typescript #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Kyle Homen

Oct 10

Hacktoberfest Week 1

#hacktoberfest #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Dmitrii

Oct 23

Building Reliable Pricing for AI Chatbots

#opensource #typescript #startup #ai

3 min read

aelassas

Nov 12

Servy: Turn Any App into a Native Windows Service

#discuss #opensource #automation #devops

17 min read

Ali Ghaedrahmat

Oct 9

I built Clarion, an opensource AI Agent & Context Engineering software

#showdev #ai #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Oct 9

Introducing @spexop/icons: A Modern React Icon Library with 262 Professional Icons

#react #typescript #opensource #ui

4 min read

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