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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

May 13 '25

Next-Gen WAF for Devs: Why SafeLine WAF Is Gaining 16K+ GitHub Stars

#cybersecurity #waf #opensource #devops

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

May 13 '25

📊 Visualise Presto Queries with Apache Zeppelin: A Hands-On Guide

#opensource #datascience #dataengineering #presto

4 min read

Alina Khmilevska

Apr 9 '25

Migration from Drupal 7: Why You Should Start with a Clean Slate ✨

#webdev #programming #drupal #opensource

9 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 13 '25

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 3)

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

Sheikh Ahmed Tauseef

Jun 10 '25

Rock Paper Scissor with PyGame And Amazon Q CLI

#python #opensource #aws #awschallenge

2 min read

Joel Milligan for NanoAPI

Apr 30 '25

🚀 Introducing NanoAPI v1.0.6 — Our First Stable Release!

#opensource #webdev #python #csharp

2 min read

Sergej Willmann

May 12 '25

Introducing Fusion – A PHP Package Manager

#php #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 12 '25

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 2)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #regex

4 min read

Leo Ko

Apr 11 '25

Automating CS Refund Inquiries with an AI Agent: Using Agentica

#typescript #opensource #programming #ai

6 min read

Apr 8 '25

🚀 Introducing Solaris UI v3 — A React Component Library I Built to Speed Up Development

#web #opensource #nextjs #react

1 min read

May 12 '25

Unveiling the BSD 3-Clause License: A Deep Dive into Open Source Permissiveness, Fairness, and Future Innovation

#bsd3clauselicense #opensource #blockchain

8 min read

May 12 '25

Five Things to Try First in RHEL 9 (Without Accidentally Blowing Anything Up)

#linux #opensource #beginners #cloudwhistler

4 min read

May 1 '25

“Everybody Loves Permissions” — Episode: The ACL Awakens (RHEL 9 Edition)

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

Ali Raza

May 12 '25

Built a tool to visualize the whole chain of call graphs of any function using static analysis

#softwaredevelopment #tooling #opensource #productivity

1 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 12 '25

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 1)

#cloudwhistler #linux #regex #opensource

4 min read

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