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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 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

Raphael Jeziorny

Apr 15 '25

AgentVault on PyPI: Building Blocks for Standardized Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication

#a2a #ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Apr 28 '25

🎬 Linux Permissions: The Sitcom You Didn’t Know You Were Starring In

#beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

3 min read

Adam smith

Apr 15 '25

7 Easy Ways to Improve Search Optimization on WordPress

#discuss #webdev #seo #opensource

2 min read

The Ecstatic Engineer

May 18 '25

Deploying Novu on a Virtual Machine

#novu #notifications #docker #opensource

4 min read

Apr 14 '25

GitHub Autodetection Comes to Greening

#opensource #python

2 min read

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May 18 '25

Redis 8 just dropped: back to open source and ready to reclaim its crown

#redis #webdev #programming #opensource

32 min read

Abdellatif Abdelfattah

Apr 14 '25

Best RAG Platforms: A Founder’s Perspective

#rag #ai #opensource

2 min read

May 18 '25

Unveiling JOSL License: A Comprehensive Overview, Exploration, and Review

#josllicense #opensource #duallicensing

8 min read

May 17 '25

Introducing ShadowBox: A Privacy-First Cloud Storage App

#opensource #flutter #python #privacy

2 min read

Apr 14 '25

Unlocking Observability with Metrics in GoFr

#discuss #programming #opensource #go

3 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 17 '25

How Linux Can Change Your Approach towards Technology and Problem-Solving

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #careerdevelopment

5 min read

Md.ismail

May 18 '25

# Uptime Kuma: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring Tool

#uptimekuma #uptimerobot #opensource #pingdom

3 min read

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