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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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DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 28 '25

Client Expectations vs. Project Reality

#opensource #clientrelations #webdev #freelance

3 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 28 '25

Managing Clients, Deadlines & Devs — Without Losing Your Mind

#opensource #webdev #freelancing #clientsfromhell

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Adao Aparecido Ernesto

Jul 27 '25

AIURM Protocol: Structuring and Tracking AI Interactions

#ai #productivity #opensource #learning

3 min read

gudhalarya

Jun 27 '25

I Built a GitHub Repo Analyzer with FastAPI and PostgreSQL – Live Demo + Source Code

#showdev #fastapi #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jasper

Jul 27 '25

🎫 Awesome self-hosted discord ticket bots (2025)

#discord #tickets #opensource #discordbot

6 min read

Kazim Ali

Jun 23 '25

Mastering Repository Sync: Your Guide to Automated GitHub Workflows for Seamless CI/CD

#cicd #githubactions #opensource #devops

7 min read

Jun 27 '25

I Made My Terminal Understand English (And You Can Too)

#ai #cli #zsh #opensource

1 min read

Aditya

Jul 26 '25

Structured logging using .NET Aspire orchestration for graphql APIs

#dotnet #graphql #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Jul 27 '25

Introducing DevToolbox – A Free Developer Toolkit for Fonts, Icons, Gradients & More

#webdev #beginners #react #opensource

1 min read

Zainab Imran for PatentScanAI

Jun 23 '25

Best Practices for Finding Non-Patent Literature for Software Patents

#startup #ai #opensource #legaltech

3 min read

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

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