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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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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

May 13 '25

Linux in Action: Managing Directories and Files

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

7 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 20 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 9)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Zako Mako

Jun 7 '25

ZewpolOS: a Linux-based secure OS for browsing the web

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Mario Alberto Chávez

Nov 13 '25

Rails MCP Server with HTTP Server-Sent Events support

#news #ruby #rails #opensource

5 min read

Serhii Zhabskyi

May 24 '25

Supercharge Your Axios Requests: axios-retryer for Robust API Communication

#webdev #typescript #axios #opensource

10 min read

May 3 '25

The Vibrant World of the Gitcoin Community

#gitcoin #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

Pierre-Clément Kerneis

May 24 '25

We Need a Spec Format for Design, QA, and Documentation

#testing #frontend #ux #opensource

3 min read

devops methodology

May 24 '25

MERN App Deployed on Kubernetes | 3 TIER WEB APPLICATION via Kubeadm

#devops #mern #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Jun 7 '25

Execa usage in Zod source code.

#cli #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Rajat

Apr 20 '25

How I built an Android PDF viewer that’s almost 100 KB (ONLY!)

#android #opensource

1 min read

May 24 '25

Introducing AI Shahab: A Free Persian AI Chatbot with the New "cas" Language Model

#showdev #ai #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 24 '25

How to build index with text embeddings

#showdev #opensource #ai #python

3 min read

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