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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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Karishma Shukla

Aug 28 '25

Open Source No-Code Playwright Alternative For Web Scraping

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Sep 15 '25

Introducing: @traversable/valibot

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

zaheetdev

Aug 29 '25

Node.js v24.7.0 Released – Post-Quantum Cryptography, Modern WebCrypto, and More

#node #javascript #security #opensource

3 min read

Peter Gebri for HydrAIDE

Aug 9 '25

🐱 Schrödinger’s Index: It Only Exists When You Observe It and Only the Way You Observe It – in the HydrAIDE Engine

#go #database #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Aug 29 '25

Check Out 3 Awesome Open Source Tabular Data Wrangling Apps

#dataengineering #csv #python #opensource

3 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 29 '25

Project of the Week: PyTorch

#discuss #github #opensource #tensorflow

3 min read

marcosomma

Aug 29 '25

🧠OrKA-Reasoning: How Workflow Execution Really Works

#ai #rag #programming #opensource

4 min read

Guy

Sep 3 '25

I Put Claude AI in Jail

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

drorIvry

Aug 27 '25

Ranger-mini: Open Model for Agentic tool use evaluation

#ai #opensource #llm #mcp

3 min read

Jul 26 '25

✨ Want to make your first PR?

#beginners #cpp #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Jul 30 '25

Level Up Your Website with Malware Detection 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

ToufiQ

Jul 30 '25

¿Qué es el Criptoanarquismo y por qué debería importarte como desarrollador?

#privacidad #web3 #opensource #blockchain

2 min read

Misha Zaslavskiy

Aug 28 '25

Use LLM for EDA licenses analysis

#cad #mcp #prometheus #opensource

2 min read

Muhammed Sabith

Aug 28 '25

How to create a CLI tool in Python

#programming #opensource #python #cli

3 min read

<devtips/>

Aug 28 '25

This embedded database runs SQL on dataframes meet DuckDB

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

28 min read

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