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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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xavki

May 3 '25

Understanding Virtual Machines vs. Containers: A Complete Guide

#docker #devops #opensource #computerscience

4 min read

xavki

May 3 '25

Understanding Docker: A Comprehensive Guide

#docker #opensource #devops

5 min read

Alex Enson

May 3 '25

Scripting Series – Part 5 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

May 2 '25

Project of the Week: Prisma

#discuss #programming #opensource #prisma

3 min read

HexShift

May 2 '25

How to Create Governance Tokens with Zero Budget

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Apr 22 '25

Feeling Lost but Still Learning: My Web Dev Journey So Far

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity

1 min read

clemra

Jun 6 '25

All Langfuse Product Features now Free Open-Source

#opensource #llm #devtools #langfuse

2 min read

May 3 '25

🚀 Introducing create-node-backend – A Simple CLI Tool to Scaffold Your Node.js Backend! 🔥

#backend #opensource #webdev #javascript

1 min read

Cahyanudien Aziz Saputra

May 3 '25

FastiShare: Your Offline File Sharing Superpower

#webdev #programming #opensource #mobile

2 min read

Apr 3 '25

The Importance of Contributor Recognition Systems in Open Source Projects

#contributorrecognition #opensource #communityengagement

7 min read

HexShift

May 3 '25

How to Create Loyalty and Reward Tokens With Zero Budget

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Vetrivel

May 2 '25

Introducing UI-editor - a web design, development tool

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

1 min read

mmvergara

May 2 '25

Free Ai Supabase Seeder

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

May 2 '25

5 Utilities to Format File Sizes in JavaScript

#programming #javascript #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

May 2 '25

How to Install Microsoft Phi-4 Reasoning Locally?

#opensource #aimodel #microsoft #ai

5 min read

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