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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 9 '25

9 Open Source Tools Every Developer Should Know🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jul 22 '25

I built an open source alternative to Perplexity Comet

#ai #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

x0rw

Jul 1 '25

IpcArc<T>: A Design Document for Inter-Process Communication in Rust

#rust #opensource #performance #linux

2 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Jun 18 '25

Metabase 55: Data visualizer for dashboard cards, database connection routing, development instances, and more

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

6 min read

Chen Debra

Jun 18 '25

DSIP-91 Proposal: A New Solution to Simplify Workflow Debugging and Deployment — Join the Discussion!

#opensource #apachedolphinscheduler #github #programming

1 min read

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Aug 22 '25

How to display different images for GitHub light mode and dark mode

#github #opensource #programming #tutorial

2 min read

Maddy for Neighbourhoodie

Jul 21 '25

What is CouchDB? #2: Guiding Principles & Use Cases

#couchdb #distributedsystems #database #opensource

10 min read

Nick Pap

Jul 25 '25

Physics Scientific-Calculator

#opensource #cpp #science #programming

2 min read

TerraformMonkey

Jul 21 '25

📜 Terraform Licensing: The 2023 Change Still Shaping Your 2025 Strategy

#terraform #opensource #devops

2 min read

kcsujeet

Jul 21 '25

Introducing ilamy Calendar: A Modern React Calendar Built for Developers

#react #opensource #calendar #bunjs

4 min read

LowLevelCodingCH

Jul 10 '25

I didn't expect this.. But I love Java again

#programming #java #opensource

2 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Jul 21 '25

🚀 I Built a Magical CLI Tool That Automatically Generates Perfect .gitignore Files - Here's How It Went Viral

#python #developer #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jul 21 '25

🚀 20K+ Downloads in 141 Days — My Journey Building CosmoTalker 🌌

#opensource #programming #python #beginners

2 min read

Jul 21 '25

CodeTxt: The Open-Source Tool That Lets AI Fully Understand Your Codebase

#programming #javascript #ai #opensource

1 min read

marcosomma

Jul 24 '25

🧠 When a System Notices Itself

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #agentaichallenge

3 min read

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