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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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Trix Cyrus

Jul 27 '25

How to Encrypt Files Online Securely: A Step-by-Step Guide

#news #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Arafat Hossain Ar

Jul 26 '25

Bulk Email Sender v2.0: From Simple Tool to Professional Email Marketing Platform

#laravel #php #opensource #marketing

4 min read

Sreeju S

Jul 26 '25

Created my First OS - Hello World OS in Assembly

#os #opensource

2 min read

Jun 22 '25

Contribute and Learn Languages with wordsIK — Words I Know

#edutech #opensource #learning #webdev

1 min read

butterfly css blog

Jul 26 '25

the easiest dark mode for beginners

#darkmode #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jul 22 '25

📢 New Docs: How We Revamped Our Documentation with Astro Starlight 🌌

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Praveen

Jul 26 '25

Format, Validate and Beautify JSON Instantly — Introducing Quick JSON

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Bharatkumar Subramanian

Jun 22 '25

Building a Real-Time OpenAI Usage Monitor with Python: From $500 Bill Shock to Open Source Solution

#python #openai #monitoring #opensource

4 min read

Victoria Oludamilola Oyewole

Jun 22 '25

CONTAINERIZATION

#beginners #tutorial #devops #opensource

8 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 25 '25

Project of the Week: Clerk

#discuss #javascript #opensource #clerk

2 min read

Jul 26 '25

I Published My First Python Library: `rs-calculator`

#discuss #python #programming #opensource

1 min read

Dhanush N

Jul 25 '25

This Node.js Package Changes Everything About Running Shell Commands

#opensource #npm #node #javascript

2 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 22 '25

Konsep dan Implementasi kelas di Bahasa Earl

#programming #opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Jul 23 '25

[AutoBE] We made AI-friendly Compilers for Vibe Coding, achieving 100% build success (open-source, AWS Kiro like)

#programming #opensource #ai #typescript

13 min read

Jun 22 '25

EXSQL: An open-source SQL language extension for customizable querying

#showdev #programming #sql #opensource

1 min read

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