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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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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 16 '25

Introducing Branching 2.0

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Abubakersiddique771

Jul 18 '25

I Stopped Doing These 5 “Smart” Things — And Became a Better Developer

#programming #productivity #mobile #opensource

3 min read

Nizamuddin Ali Ahmed

Aug 2 '25

Secure Your Android App with Biometric SDK in 5 Minutes 🔐 (Kotlin)

#android #kotlin #security #opensource

3 min read

Bryantad

Jun 25 '25

Sona v0.7.0 Is Live — Object-Oriented Power Unleashed

#showdev #programming #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Matthew Walther

Jul 29 '25

How to sell open source technology to the government

#news #opensource #procurement #government

13 min read

Jun 25 '25

remeda package in 0.email codebase.

#zero #email #react #opensource

4 min read

Jul 29 '25

Understanding Distributed Consensus and Data Replication day 17 of learning system design

#programming #opensource #learning #database

7 min read

SetraTheX

Jul 28 '25

# 🚀 Building Pagonic: A Modern WinRAR Alternative with AI-Powered Compression

#python #performance #ai #opensource

6 min read

DeRucci69

Jun 25 '25

runtime API discovery for LLM agents using a simple agents.json

#api #ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 25 '25

Modul tampilkan di Earl: Menampilkan Nilai dengan Format yang Terkontrol

#programming #opensource #beginners #indonesia

2 min read

Jun 25 '25

Hello DEV Community — Learning Go, Open to Collaborations!

#go #gofer #opensource #github

1 min read

Melih

Jul 8 '25

Stop Paying $500/Month to Experiment with AI - Run Everything Locally with LocalCloud

#ai #aiops #opensource #developertools

5 min read

Jun 25 '25

Introducing CursorNinja – One Script to Install, Update & Setup the Cursor Editor!

#linux #opensource #beginners #ai

1 min read

Jun 24 '25

React Native Animated Content Scroll - Update

#reactnative #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

motion team for Motion

Jun 24 '25

How One Engineer Saved Us $110K and Ended Our Database Nightmare 🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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