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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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Emily

Jun 30 '25

Is There Room for Growth in Open-Source CMDB Discovery Tools?

#news #opensource #learning #cmdb

6 min read

divyanshu_Kumar

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GSoC Progress (Weeks 1–4) at MIT App Inventor — Building a Responsive GWT Interface

#java #gwt #opensource #gsoc

5 min read

Aero

Jun 28 '25

It's 2025 - Why Is Offline File Sharing Still So Broken?

#discuss #privacy #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Magic.rb

May 31 '25

How My Weekend Project Went Viral on Hacker News

#opensource #programming #webdev #javascript

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 19 '25

Tutorial Dasar Earl: Menggunakan atur dan ambil

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

toxi360

May 26 '25

I developed a todo GUI using only C and the Win32 API. I'm open to suggestions and contributions.

#c #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jun 30 '25

Adding Animated Subtitles to Videos with Python

#showdev #python #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Abdul Rehman Khan

Jun 29 '25

Top 10 Free AI Coding Assistants Developers Should Try in 2025

#ai #programming #opensource #devtools

3 min read

May 27 '25

How to enable debug mode in nuqs?

#nuqs #opensource #nextjs #debug

4 min read

Jun 29 '25

From OpenAI to Ollama: Visual LLM Evaluations with Promptfoo

#opensource #promptfoo #openai #llm

15 min read

Jun 29 '25

How to Detect SLA Breaches in JIRA Using a Lightweight Python Script

#python #webdev #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jun 29 '25

My Journey Building AI Ticket Routing & SLA Breach Prediction in JIRA (With Code)

#ai #opensource #webdev #python

2 min read

Jun 29 '25

KEDA: Smarter Scaling for Kubernetes – Event-Driven and Effortless

#kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Jun 29 '25

MY LINUX BOOT & DRIVE ISSUES

#programming #linux #opensource #dualboot

2 min read

Gustavo A. Gutkoski

May 26 '25

Creating an AI Assistant for Technical Documentation – Part 2.1: Introduction to the Crawler

#python #ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

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