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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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Pavel

May 21 '25

# 🔗 nodeBond – Local IPC Bridge for Node.js (no TCP, no dependencies)

#javascript #opensource #node #devtools

1 min read

TheoForger

Apr 17 '25

Closing the Chapter - Recap

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

LaTerral Williams

Jun 7 '25

🖥️ Linux Process Management for Beginners: A Day in the Life of a Junior Sysadmin

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #cloud

4 min read

May 21 '25

🎉 react-emoji-toggle-button is available now!

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

May 21 '25

Introducing MonkeysLegion: A Next-Gen PHP Framework (and CMS) You Can Help Build

#php #opensource #programming

2 min read

João Paulo Abreu

May 21 '25

Contributing to Elixir Documentation: My Journey with PR #14501

#elixir #opensource #documentation

4 min read

Apr 17 '25

Wireless Display vs. Traditional Connections: What’s Better in 2025?

#webdev #opensource #learning #blockchain

4 min read

May 21 '25

🚀 Why Is It Important to Throttle Your API?

#webdev #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

Pavel

May 21 '25

WiseJSON — Embedded JSON Database for Node.js with WAL & Checkpoints

#javascript #node #opensource #database

2 min read

Apr 17 '25

Need help getting a feature request into the backlog to enhace the code workspace file browsing

#vscode #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Thea for NanoAPI

May 21 '25

Using NanoAPI on Game Mods

#csharp #modding #programming #opensource

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 17 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 6)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 4 '25

How to Install NVIDIA AceReason-Nemotron-14B Locally?

#nvidia #opensource #ai #llm

7 min read

NocoBase

Apr 17 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Some Commercial Plugins Converted to Open Source

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Sharon

May 21 '25

Is This the Best Free WAF in 2025?

#safeline #websecurity #opensource #waf

3 min read

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