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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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Mar 5 '25

How Elon Musk Is Shaping the Future Through Open Source Innovation

#elonmusk #opensource #innovation

4 min read

Ezo Saleh

Apr 7 '25

Self-hosting LLMs for Production Systems: Solving the Model Quality Challenge

#llm #agents #opensource #go

6 min read

Mar 4 '25

Indie Hacking Success Stories with Open Source Licenses

#indiehacking #opensource #successstories

3 min read

Mar 4 '25

IBM's Pioneering in Digital Innovation: Open Source & Blockchain

#ibm #opensource #blockchain

4 min read

Apr 7 '25

Best community tech Discord servers to join

#discord #community #opensource

4 min read

Besworks

Apr 7 '25

Command Line Text Completions via Local LLM with GPT4All and NodeJS

#llm #nlp #node #opensource

9 min read

Mar 4 '25

Gitcoin: Pioneering Open Source Innovation

#gitcoin #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

Apr 7 '25

Mastering the Linux File System – A Beginner's Guide

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Apr 7 '25

What is Hyperledger Fabric State Database? Exploring Open Source Business Models, Funding, and Community Dynamics

#hyperledgerfabric #opensource #blockchain

8 min read

Laetitia Perraut

Mar 4 '25

The Open Source Revolution: Empowering Developers Through GitHub Sponsors

#githubsponsors #opensource #communityfunding

4 min read

Apr 7 '25

Incremental processing to keep low latency sync for your ETL

#showdev #ai #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Mar 4 '25

Elon Musk and Open Source: Redefining Innovation Through Collaboration

#elonmusk #opensource #innovation

3 min read

Apr 7 '25

Elastic License: A Comprehensive Exploration of Fair Code Licensing and Open Source Sustainability

#elasticlicense #opensource #faircodelicensing

8 min read

Mar 4 '25

Donald Trump and Open Source: A Thought-Provoking Intersection of Politics and Technology

#donaldtrump #opensource #politicalpolicy

4 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 5 '25

Enhanced NFT Security: Embracing Open Source for a Safer Digital Future

#nftsecurity #opensource #cybersecurity

4 min read

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