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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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Sharon

Sep 11

SafeLine WAF Hands-On: The Free Security Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed

#opensource #webdev #safeline #waf

3 min read

Eric

Aug 8

PIDM v1.2.0 – A Powerful Open-Source Download Manager Just Got Better!

#programming #python #opensource #pidm

2 min read

Water Run

Sep 21

Bat-KV: Lightweight Key-Value Store for Windows Batch

#database #programming #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Aug 22

The Open-Source App Builder That Ate SaaS: Dyad + Ollama Setup

#opensource #saas #ai #llm

12 min read

Santiago Gonzalez

Aug 8

Traditional vs Modern OSS: A Head‑to‑Head Comparison for CSPs

#opensource #agenticai #csp #nocode

2 min read

M Shojaei

Sep 11

Open Source AI

#ai #opensource #llm

11 min read

Sep 11

Best Tailwind CSS Dashboard Templates for 2025

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #nextjs

7 min read

DASWU

Aug 8

How JuiceFS Transformed Idle Resources into a 70 GB/s Cache Pool

#opensource

5 min read

Adeoye Enoch Olamilekan

Aug 8

If you are a grad student trying to pursue web developing…..

#productivity #react #career #opensource

1 min read

Sep 10

From Static Forms to Dynamic Configurator: Our Journey in PLM

#plm #digitaltransformation #opensource #react

3 min read

Aug 8

GdprApi-Open — Making GDPR Compliance Simple for Developers

#opensource #api #csharp #mongodb

3 min read

BEIDI DINA SAMUEL

Aug 21

BEIDI DINA SAMUEL : Le spécialiste qui Bâtit la Cybersécurité depuis Maroua

#cybersecurity #opensource #beididinasamuel #machinelearning

2 min read

Sep 10

Stop Writing Your Own Validators

#llm #python #opensource #openai

2 min read

Aug 7

Join the Movement: Support the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Future of Digital Freedom

#opensource

1 min read

Bio AI Software Engineer

Aug 11

Biotech Software Engineer Directory

#programming #biotech #ai #opensource

1 min read

Aug 30

Instantly Convert PDFs to Structured JSON with JSONIFY

#opensource #webdev #ai #python

1 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Aug 7

DocWire SDK 2025.08.05 Released – Local AI Embeddings, SentencePiece, Cosine Similarity

#cpp #ai #nlp #opensource

2 min read

Aug 7

telemetry.ts file in Flyde codebase.

#flyde #telemetry #opensource #sanitize

2 min read

Aug 7

Join the Movement: Support the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Future of Digital Freedom

#opensource

1 min read

Sep 10

When a For Loop Powers Your Stock Backtester - Devlog

#programming #beginners #opensource #learning

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 30

AWS open source newsletter, #213

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Sep 10

Open-Source Observability Revolution: How Uptrace, OpenObserve, and Vector Solve Complexity, Cost, and Performance...

#observability #opensource #performance #costoptimisation

8 min read

Thorsten Marx ㋡

Aug 7

CondationCMS manager application

#flatfilecms #condationcms #java #opensource

2 min read

Tom

Aug 29

How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

#linux #bash #devops #opensource

8 min read

Aug 29

Building a High-Performance Lock-Free Ring Buffer in C++ for Ultra-Low Latency Messaging

#showdev #cpp #performance #opensource

1 min read

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