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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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Marycynthia Ihemebiwo

Dec 25 '25

Adding a Missing Step to the Devnet Walkthrough

#beginners #documentation #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Dec 25 '25

A Simple Browser-Based Image to GIF Tool for Quick Visual Content

#webdev #opensource #nocode #productivity

2 min read

NocoBase

Dec 25 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

Jan 29

Bringing the Linux "touch" Command to Windows with a PowerShell Module

#opensource #productivity #shell

2 min read

Dec 28 '25

I Built a Task Manager That Automatically Kills Tasks You're Ignoring

#opensource #taskmanager #productivity #burnout

6 min read

Behram

Jan 26

NVIDIA PersonaPlex: The "Full-Duplex" Revolution

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Dec 24 '25

I Got Tired of Writing FFmpeg Commands, So I Built a Small Go Helper

#go #ffmpeg #videostreaming #opensource

1 min read

Blessing Olaoye

Dec 24 '25

Review Checklist, Why You Need One

#ai #productivity #opensource #cli

5 min read

Sebastian Jimenez

Dec 24 '25

I got mass downvoted for sharing my Claude configuration. So I built a tool to fix this.

#ai #productivity #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Roberto B.

Jan 25

How to deprecate PHP code without breaking your users

#php #tutorial #development #opensource

8 min read

PE

Jan 6

Why I Built mlship: One Tool for All ML Frameworks

#machinelearning #devtools #python #opensource

2 min read

Dec 24 '25

Optimizing Complex Planning Inside Modern ERP Systems with Timefol

#ai #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Cyber

Jan 28

My Top 5 Self-Hosted Tools Running on My Home Server via Docker (Part 1)

#docker #opensource #devops

4 min read

Elsa

Dec 24 '25

We built an all-in-one, no-code hosting platform to run open-source apps and create websites on any cloud

#showdev #opensource #productivity #selfhost

3 min read

Bhaskar Nath Pandey

Dec 28 '25

Why I stopped using online JSON formatters (and built my own)

#webdev #react #security #opensource

2 min read

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