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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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Laetitia Perraut

Apr 5 '25

Is GitHub Sponsors Safe? A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Open Source Funding

#githubsponsors #opensource #security

7 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

May 20 '25

How to Install SmolDocling-256M-Preview Locally?

#smoldocling #opensource #ai #llm

7 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

May 8 '25

A Step-By-Step Guide to Running AgenticSeek Locally: No API Needed

#ai #deepseek #opensource #programming

8 min read

May 8 '25

Open Source Project Sponsorship Tips Explained

#opensource #sponsorship #funding

8 min read

The Programming Tomato

Apr 8 '25

Screw Code Assessments

#discuss #opensource #career

1 min read

Lightning Developer

May 8 '25

Top Open-Source Multi-Cloud Management Platforms in 2025

#webdev #devops #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Peter Strøiman

May 5 '25

Why You Should Boycott VS Code

#vscode #opensource #programming #tooling

7 min read

Apr 5 '25

The Philosophy Behind Greening: Developer Momentum

#python #opensource #automation #tooling

2 min read

TerraformMonkey

May 8 '25

Terraform to OpenTofu - Guide

#terraform #cloudinfra #devops #opensource

2 min read

Apr 4 '25

Fair Code: A Balanced Approach to Open Source and Beyond

#faircode #opensource #sustainability

8 min read

Apr 4 '25

Preventing Pointer Misuse in C++ via Compile-Time Sandboxing (Inspired by Gene Logic)

#cpp #security #architecture #opensource

1 min read

Ashish S

Apr 5 '25

🔧 Top Open Source Projects Built with Rust (And Why They Matter in 2025)

#rust #opensource #webdev #gamedev

1 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 8 '25

Real-Time Knowledge Graph for Product recommendation with LLM taxonomy extraction

#showdev #opensource #programming #python

7 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

May 8 '25

How to Install Falcon 3 Locally?

#falcon3 #ai #llm #opensource

6 min read

May 8 '25

Components structure in '/apps/[appName]' route in open source ACI.dev platform.

#opensource #acp #mcp #nextjs

4 min read

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