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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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Dinesh Thakur for Requestly

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Hacktoberfest 2025 Requestly: Build with us this October

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Diego Musagy Casas

Aug 27 '25

Using ProtonVPN with OpenVPN on Arch Linux (for Japan servers 🇯🇵)

#linux #archlinux #opensource

3 min read

n9te9

Aug 27 '25

aria - Event Driven websocket framework

#go #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Fernando Paladini

Aug 27 '25

FOSSAI: An Open-Source Manifesto Against Digital Inequality — v0.1

#programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 14 '25

Tools & Software for Tracking Milestones (Jira, MS Project, Trello, etc.)

#opensource #webdev #programming #ai

3 min read

Scott Griffiths

Aug 14 '25

Building a Unified AI Safety Platform

#ai #security #opensource #python

5 min read

Sep 17 '25

Introducing colorific-magic: Enhance Your Console Logs with Stunning Colors

#node #npm #opensource #webdev

2 min read

joy larkin

Aug 13 '25

The Urgency of Open Source AI

#opensource #ai #openmodels

2 min read

Aug 13 '25

Tide42 Release 1.2.2 (stable)

#programming #python #opensource #linux

2 min read

JustACoder

Aug 13 '25

Day 14 of #30DaysOfCode

#programming #productivity #java #opensource

1 min read

Arun

Aug 13 '25

Tech Thiruvzha

#webdev #shortflim #opensource

1 min read

kaifcodec

Sep 16 '25

CLI based Youtube video downloader written in python with advanced features — Need contributors and feedback

#tooling #python #opensource #cli

1 min read

Aug 13 '25

A Technical Deep-Dive for the Security-Conscious

#opensource

3 min read

Sep 6 '25

My First OSD600 Blog Post

#opensource #osd600 #github #studentblog

2 min read

本性

Sep 16 '25

ComboLite: Android plugin framework, helping you easily build dynamic applications where "everything is pluggable."

#android #kotlin #pluginframework #opensource

19 min read

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