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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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RisingWave Labs

Apr 28 '25

Is RisingWave the Next Apache Flink?

#discuss #productivity #opensource #datascience

6 min read

Apr 27 '25

# PostgreSQL Tutorial: What Really Happens When You Add and Drop Columns 2000 Times in PostgreSQL

#opensource #postgres #sql

2 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 28 '25

Nerds Go to War: Why Linux and Red Hat Certified Heroes Matter

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

Artu

Apr 7 '25

Introducing GitHotswap: Switch Git Profiles Like a Pro

#git #productivity #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Developer Harsh for Composio

Apr 21 '25

MCP client - Step by Step Guide to Building from Scratch

#ai #opensource #python #deeplearning

12 min read

Anuj Ashok Potdar

Apr 27 '25

Spring PetClinic Goes Global: Enhancing Accessibility with Multi-Language Support

#spring #java #opensource #i18n

3 min read

ARGHA DHAR

Mar 26 '25

GitHub Pull Request Review Study

#opensource #security #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Adityavardhan Agrawal

Mar 24 '25

An overview of rules based ingestion in DataBridge

#rag #ai #python #opensource

6 min read

Jun 5 '25

I replaced the HTMX in the project to this module🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

kubona Martin Yafesi

Apr 26 '25

The Complete Guide to Setting Up Postgresql on Windows 11 and WSL2

#dataengineering #beginners #opensource #learning

6 min read

Apr 27 '25

# Neo4j Tutorial: Handling Neo4j Database Consistency Errors

#neo4j #graphql #opensource #dba

2 min read

Apr 27 '25

PostgreSQL Tutorial: key limits inside PostgreSQL — And What Happens When You Hit Them

#postgressql #dba #opensource #pgsql

2 min read

Apr 7 '25

From Zero to AI-Powered Job Assistant: How I Built JobQuest AI in 48 Hours with Autogen and Selenium

#programming #ai #opensource #python

2 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Apr 21 '25

📢 HMPL v3.0: New big update!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jun 19 '25

From 0 To 500 GitHub Stars: Our Year-Long Adventure🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

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