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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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Arindam Majumder

May 1 '25

Stop Vibe Coding 🚫 Make Your AI SaaS Production-Ready with these 7 Tools ⚡️

#ai #webdev #opensource #api

7 min read

May 7 '25

How Liquibase Makes Life Easy for DB Admins

#opensource #database #devops #tutorial

6 min read

May 7 '25

What I've Learned From Troubleshooting OIDC/OAuth SSO Errors in Grafana and Keycloak

#devops #opensource #security #iam

4 min read

May 7 '25

Data fetching in '/apps' route in open source ACI.dev platform.

#opensource #aci #nextjs #mcp

4 min read

Rowen

Apr 2 '25

FlashTokenizer: The World’s Fastest CPU Tokenizer

#nlp #python #cpp #opensource

2 min read

May 7 '25

Open Source Funding Challenges: Navigating the Path to Sustainability

#opensource #fundingchallenges #sustainability

7 min read

Jun 4 '25

Calling Devs: Help Build Mothrly — A Digital Village for Mothers

#womenintech #opensource #reactnative #collaboration

1 min read

Jun 4 '25

The Reference Data Problem That's Been Driving Developers Crazy (And How I Think I Finally Fixed It?)

#programming #opensource #dotnet #microservices

9 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

May 6 '25

Switching Users with su and sudo (And When to Use Them)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

xavki

May 6 '25

Guide Complet : Comprendre le Matériel pour Mieux Administrer Linux

#linux #devops #opensource #computerscience

6 min read

TerraformMonkey

May 6 '25

What is ClickOps?

#terraform #opensource #devops

3 min read

NocoBase

Apr 3 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

12 min read

Apr 7 '25

Open Source Sponsorship and Backing: Funding Innovation and Collaboration

#opensource #sponsorship #funding

9 min read

Apr 7 '25

Open Source Revenue Generation: Balancing Community and Commerce

#opensource #revenuemodels #sustainablefunding

8 min read

Apr 7 '25

Open Source Funding Platforms: Empowering Innovation and Collaboration

#opensource #fundingplatforms #blockchain

10 min read

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