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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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Rohtash Sethi for NG DELHI

May 14 '25

We Use Angular: Discover the Companies Powering Their Products with Angular

#angular #opensource #community #frontend

3 min read

Nick K

May 12 '25

Building an Open Source Alternative to Patreon in 100 days

#discuss #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 14 '25

Own Your System: Using the find Command for File Ownership, Backup & System Control

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

Apr 10 '25

CerbiStream – Bringing Governance to the Wild West of Logging

#dotnet #logging #governance #opensource

3 min read

Anshuman Khanna

May 14 '25

The problem with Open Source, in 2025

#opensource #programming #learning #webdev

4 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 14 '25

🦾 Modify Like a Machine: Mastering `usermod` with The Terminator

#cloudwhistler #cloud #linux #opensource

6 min read

May 28 '25

🌍 Help Build a Transparent Blockchain System for Public Projects | Open-Source Collaboration

#ethereum #blockchain #opensource #hardhat

1 min read

Apr 10 '25

Pinta's website refresh - Giving back with design

#design #opensource #community #givingback

1 min read

Sharon

May 14 '25

Fine-Tuning SSL Protocols and Ciphers in SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #webdev #opensource #waf

2 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

May 14 '25

find command

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

5 min read

NocoBase

Apr 10 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimize save job logic

#news #lowcode #opensource #nocode

5 min read

May 13 '25

Funding in Open Source: A Conversation with Chad Whitacre

#opensource #opensourcefunding #devcommunity

4 min read

shrey vijayvargiya

Jun 6 '25

Lemon Squeey React Next.js Payments

#webdev #opensource #stripe #nextjs

8 min read

NocoBase

Apr 10 '25

From Designer to Builder: L&A’s Digital Transformation with NocoBase

#news #lowcode #nocode #opensource

5 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

May 14 '25

Generate Professional AI Videos in Seconds with LTX by Lightricks

#ai #machinelearning #productivity #opensource

9 min read

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