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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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May 6 '25

The concept of a temporary View state in JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Bhavesh Gangani

Mar 25 '25

Common POS System Problems and How to Fix Them

#opensource #odoo #erp

3 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 27 '25

Understanding Groups in Linux: How They Shape Access & Control in Real World

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Kinser

Apr 27 '25

Implementing RAG with Spring AI and Pinecone: A Practical Guide

#opensource #ai #spring

3 min read

Apr 27 '25

Blockchain, NFTs, and Open-Source Technologies: A Sustainable and Innovative Future

#blockchain #nfts #opensource

8 min read

Mar 24 '25

🚀 LLM Alchemist: A Fast and Open-Source Prompt Testing Tool

#llm #opensource #react

1 min read

Carrie

Apr 27 '25

First Experience with an Open-Source Web Application Firewall – SafeLine

#waf #opensource #websecurity #beginners

2 min read

NocoBase

Mar 24 '25

How a 400+ Lawyer Firm Streamlines Commission Management with NocoBase

#opensource #management #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Ramenchu

Mar 24 '25

I made a program that uses dynamic programming

#programming #algorithms #opensource

1 min read

Prince

May 25 '25

Web3 and Blockchain Projects

#web3 #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Apr 27 '25

My first deep dive into creating open source projects

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Gus

Mar 23 '25

A.S.T.R.A - Autonomous Synthetic Thought Response Animus. - WIP

#ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25 '25

[Agentica] Backend Developers, Automate Frontend Development. Much better than Vibe Coding.

#programming #typescript #opensource #ai

5 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 26 '25

Part 2: Why Your AI is Stuck in a Memento Loop

#ai #aiops #opensource #rag

3 min read

Bharathvaj

Apr 27 '25

Understanding .well-known URIs

#rfc #webdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

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