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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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Second Me

Apr 22 '25

Second Me Now Supports MCP Protocol —— Your AI Identity Can Now Be Called Anywhere

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

2 min read

Madhurima Rawat for AquaScript

May 20 '25

🌊 AquaScript: Your Dev Tool for Fake Data, Real Impact ⚡

#discuss #aquascript #api #opensource

4 min read

Mwanza Lumamba Eliab

May 15 '25

Create Nginx Load balancer on EC2

#aws #tutorial #opensource #learning

2 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 25 '25

How to build image search with semantic understanding

#showdev #programming #python #opensource

6 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

May 24 '25

Build Medical AI with Google’s MedGemma 4B & 27B: A Complete Installation Guide

#ai #machinelearning #nlp #opensource

8 min read

Apr 22 '25

⚡ The Collision: Human Thought vs. Artificial Precision

#discuss #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

SynTeam

May 5 '25

Introducing SynTeam Framework: Structured Prompt Templates for GPT

#chatgpt #promptengineering #llm #opensource

2 min read

Dzmitry Hutaryan

Jun 5 '25

Half year late post

#angular #community #design #opensource

1 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jun 5 '25

Project of the Week: TensorFlow

#discuss #opensource #tensorflow #github

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 21 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 10)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Chen Debra

Jun 6 '25

Full-Scope Tests Passed! A Practical Guide to Apache DolphinScheduler 3.2.0 Single-Node Deployment and Verification

#dataops #opensource #programming #dolphinscheduler

6 min read

May 25 '25

call, apply, and bind in JavaScript — Explained with Simple Examples

#discuss #javascript #100daysofcode #opensource

2 min read

Setasena Randata

May 14 '25

Summit Finance: A Modern Open Source Invoicing Solution Built with Next.js, Drizzle ORM, and Tailwind CSS

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jun 11 '25

Ubuntu 24.X Üzerinde Apache TOMCAT 9 Kurulumu (Java 8)

#webdev #opensource #tomcat #ubuntu

2 min read

Carrie

Apr 24 '25

How to Filter Bot used by SEO and Cyber Attacks in SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #bot #seobot #opensource

2 min read

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