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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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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

Naim Ai

May 8 '25

CrewAI: Building Collaborative AI Teams with Python

#webdev #ai #opensource

2 min read

May 7 '25

Mission: Save the Server – The Disk is Almost Full!

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

Apr 3 '25

The Power of Donations in the Open Source Ecosystem

#opensource #donations #sustainability

6 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

May 7 '25

Migrating From DVC to KitOps

#programming #ai #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Ameema

Apr 3 '25

Top 7 Resources & Websites to learn Coding

#webdev #beginners #opensource #coding

5 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

May 7 '25

File & Directory Management – Command Your Files with Power! (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhister #linux #devops #opensource

4 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

Jun 4 '25

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs from Documents Using CocoIndex + Kuzu (with LLMs & Live Updates)

#showdev #programming #python #opensource

4 min read

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

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