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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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Oussama

Mar 9 '25

Hello everyone, Does anyone know of an open-source API that I can use with Flutter to get an image URL of a car model?

#help #flutter #api #opensource

1 min read

Pantelis Deligiannidis

Mar 9 '25

Tutorial - Personal Website with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS

#tutorial #svelte #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Yvonne

Apr 12 '25

Managing EC2 Instances with the AWS CLI

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

4 min read

Aditya Tripathi

Apr 12 '25

The Art vs. Science of Prompt Engineering: Where Creativity Meets Logic

#ai #opensource #agaenticai #gpt3

4 min read

Sam

Apr 12 '25

Letting Agents Write and Review Code — A 0dev Milestone(Demo)

#genai #ai #opensource #python

1 min read

theconcept-technologies

Apr 11 '25

Debug Smarter: Meet xDebug Pro for Chrome

#php #extension #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Hussein Nakhostin

Apr 12 '25

Forgot the CAPTCHA Again? This Simple C#/.NET Open-Source Package Can Be Your Bot-Stopping Hero!

#dotnet #csharp #security #opensource

2 min read

Apr 12 '25

Kagent: Agents de IA em clusters Kubernetes

#ai #cloud #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Apr 12 '25

Dbms Definition

#dbms #opensource #database #data

3 min read

Apr 3 '25

AutoView - turning your blueprint into UI components (AI Code Generator)

#typescript #programming #ai #opensource

7 min read

Carrie

Apr 11 '25

How to Set Up Free Reverse Proxy with High-Security Protection

#security #reverseproxy #waf #opensource

3 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Apr 6 '25

You can reduce the size of web applications several times using these tips 🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 12 '25

How to Pitch Your Boss to Adopt Apache Iceberg?

#news #opensource #learning #datascience

5 min read

Jayson DeLancey for Semgrep

Apr 11 '25

Getting Started with SAST and Semgrep CLI

#security #semgrep #devops #opensource

5 min read

Bogdan

Apr 11 '25

The Self-Hosting Rabbit Hole

#devops #opensource

6 min read

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