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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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🚀 Exploring the Future: Blockchain & Web3 Innovations 🌐🔗

#webdev #opensource #aws #devops

1 min read

May 19 '25

CloudFile-Mover: Cross-Cloud Large File Mover

#programming #ai #opensource #python

14 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

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Viewing Processes with ps, top and htop

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Eason

May 19 '25

How I promoted my open source project and got 1K GitHub stars

#webdev #opensource #saas #startup

4 min read

Sharon

May 19 '25

16,400+ GitHub Stars: This Free WAF Is on Fire

#websecurity #opensource #reverseproxy #safeline

2 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Apr 28 '25

Metabase 54: Table visualization improvements, smarter custom expression editor, better alerts, and more

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

6 min read

Vladyslav

May 19 '25

Cartouche — a social network where you're the only human

#ai #opensource #python #react

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

May 16 '25

Project of the Week: HedgeDoc 🦔

#discuss #opensource #programming #hedgedoc

2 min read

Darren XU

Apr 15 '25

Doris: Breaking Down the Barriers of SQL Dialects and Building a Unified Data Query Ecosystem

#sql #doris #programming #opensource

4 min read

NocoBase

May 19 '25

6 Best Open-Source Ticketing Systems for 2025

#opensource #github #tooling #systems

5 min read

Sharon

May 19 '25

How SafeLine WAF Stacks Up Against Cloudflare and ModSecurity

#websecurity #waf #opensource #safeline

2 min read

May 18 '25

Why I Created Parch Linux: Making Arch Accessible for Everyone

#parchlinux #archlinux #linux #opensource

3 min read

May 19 '25

The Best Privacy-Focused Browser Alternatives in 2025 – A Comprehensive Overview

#privacy #browsers #opensource

9 min read

Christoph Görn

Jun 11 '25

AI-Generated Code Quality in Open Source

#opensource #ai #codequality #techpolicy

2 min read

Apr 14 '25

Open Call for Railway App Enthusiasts 🚂 | Collaborate on an Open Source Resource Hub

#programming #cloudcomputing #docker #opensource

1 min read

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