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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 18 '25

AI-Powered Quiz Generator - SyllabusQuiz

#ai #opensource #edtech #python

2 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Jul 17 '25

The untold story behind the popular open-source PDF library—react-pdf

#opensource #react #pdf #github

3 min read

hopsayer

Jul 17 '25

mpv vs VLC: Making mpv Comfortable to Use

#linux #opensource #tutorial #performance

2 min read

Jul 17 '25

Odyssey :-Business Tourism 🚀 — Redefining Travel Discovery for the Modern Explorer

#react #opensource #azure #leaftetmap

3 min read

Judy

Jul 17 '25

Simulating Multiple-Layer Loop to Solve Logical Problems

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

6 min read

Jul 17 '25

Day 4 of Learning System Design: Mastering Consistent Hashing

#programming #productivity #python #opensource

3 min read

Ryo Suwito

Jul 17 '25

The Economic Reality Behind Stallman's Four Freedoms: Why Open Source Became Corporate Exploitation

#webdev #programming #linux #opensource

4 min read

PSBigBig

Jul 17 '25

How I Got 100/100 From GPT-4, Gemini, Grok, and More—Using Just a .txt File

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jun 12 '25

React Native 0.80 Oficial: Saiu! O Que Mudou de Verdade?

#react #reactnative #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jul 16 '25

If You’re Still Copy-Pasting from Stack Overflow, Read This

#nextjs #react #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 12 '25

DeadLock - dead.lock file

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

1 min read

Eric

Jun 12 '25

PIDM - python internet download manager

#programming #python #pidm #opensource

2 min read

Romina Elena Mendez Escobar

Jul 16 '25

MedGemma: Google’s Open-Source AI Model for Healthcare

#ai #programming #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Ashraf

Jun 12 '25

How I Built a Reusable Fetch Hook in React and Published It to npm

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 14 '25

Introducing JWT Signing Keys

#webdev #programming #opensource #database

5 min read

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