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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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howard hua

Sep 4 '25

Wplace 63/64-color palette — free download (HEX & GPL)

#design #pixelart #resources #opensource

1 min read

Sep 3 '25

Free QR code generators are no more free

#ai #opensource #qr #community

5 min read

Jul 31 '25

The Untold Misadventures of Red Teaming Kimi K2 with Promptfoo

#kimi #opensource #promptfoo #security

14 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 2 '25

Earl bahasa yang memudahkan

#earl #programming #opensource #indonesia

2 min read

Jul 31 '25

Help Wanted: Full Migration to Next.js for Modern Dev Snippet App

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

1 min read

ElshadHu

Sep 3 '25

My Open Source Journey Begins with GitHub & Magic Enum

#opensource #gith #cpp #learning

2 min read

Arvind Sundara Rajan

Sep 3 '25

Pocket-Sized Performance: Building a Network Sentinel with Reservoir Computing on a Pi by Arvind Sundararajan

#networking #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

riyap03

Jul 31 '25

🌸 My First Open Source Contribution – and It Wasn't Scary!

#opensource #fastify #webdev #womenintech

1 min read

mntsx

Sep 2 '25

Introducing THOAD, High Order Derivatives for PyTorch Graphs

#python #ai #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Sep 3 '25

GitHub Education Student Pack: A Complete Guide for Students

#github #opensource #developer #programming

3 min read

Sep 3 '25

Inside the Portfolio: How Stocksimpy Tracks Trades and Value

#programming #python #opensource #learning

3 min read

Tobias

Sep 3 '25

Erdus

#opensource #database #postgres #programming

2 min read

Sep 3 '25

Open Source Alternatives to Hacker News

#news #opensource

2 min read

vketteni

Aug 4 '25

# Extracting Reusable CLI Infrastructure from Google's Gemini CLI

#gemini #opensource #anthropic #openai

6 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jul 31 '25

Pemula Coding dengan Earl Apakah Bisa?

#programming #earl #opensource #indonesia

2 min read

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