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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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Jul 31 '25

Using GitHub Copilot to Manage Issues (and Save Time)

#githubcopilot #productivity #opensource #management

3 min read

Aniket Raj

Aug 6 '25

It's Alive! Project KARL is Now Open Source.

#showdev #kotlin #ai #opensource

3 min read

NocoBase

Jul 3 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

5 min read

Aug 6 '25

Zephyr RTOS: The Modern Embedded Engineer’s Guide

#zephyrrtos #freertos #opensource

3 min read

Lauren Lee for Devs of Midnight

Aug 1 '25

The Midnight Community Board: Building With the Community, Not Just For It

#web3 #devrel #community #opensource

2 min read

Jul 7 '25

Free software isn’t open source

#webdev #opensource #python #programming

2 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Jul 2 '25

DocWire SDK 2025.06.29 Released – New GPT-4o Support, Cleaner Builds, Smarter Prompts

#openai #cpp #opensource #chatgpt

1 min read

Flexprice

Jul 16 '25

Why Stripe Can’t Handle Your Complex Usage Based Billing

#stripe #opensource #webdev #go

3 min read

Code Forge Temple

Aug 5 '25

How I Built an Offline AI-Powered NPC System with Godot and Gemma 3n

#godot #ai #opensource #llm

3 min read

Aug 5 '25

OpenAI Releases GPT-OSS: What It Means for AI Developers and Agent Builders

#openai #opensource #ai #programming

3 min read

Necati Özmen for VoltAgent

Aug 5 '25

100+ Claude Code Subagent Collection

#webdev #llm #opensource #ai

10 min read

Basebasket

Jul 2 '25

🐳 Help Make Docker Setup Truly Automated!

#opensource #docker #laravel #beginners

2 min read

Jainil Prajapati

Aug 6 '25

OpenAI Just Dropped GPT-OSS and It's a GAME CHANGER 🤯 (Full Breakdown + Code)

#openai #gptoss #opensourceai #opensource

15 min read

Wycliffe A. Onyango

Aug 5 '25

100 Days of DevOps: Day 2

#linux #devops #bash #opensource

1 min read

Slavik

Aug 5 '25

Building a parenting app with UDP

#mobile #network #java #opensource

5 min read

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