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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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Tania Chakraborty for goose

Apr 4 '25

MCP Explained for Non-Developers

#ai #opensource #mcp

4 min read

Apr 4 '25

What is tmpfs mounts?

#devops #docker #cloud #opensource

4 min read

lolo859

Apr 4 '25

A kernel with interpreted processes

#kernel #opensource #programming

5 min read

Apr 4 '25

Introducing Greening: Ship Beautiful Software, Fast

#showdev #python #opensource #automation

2 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 5 '25

Unveiling the Synergy: How Open Source and Blockchain Are Revolutionizing Tech

#opensource #blockchain #technology

3 min read

Apr 4 '25

PowerShell: new features, same old bugs

#csharp #opensource #github

8 min read

Beebea

Apr 4 '25

Simplifying Cross-chain transfers with Anyalt Widget

#opensource #api #web3

4 min read

Henrique Cavarsan

Mar 5 '25

Debugging Kubernetes Services with KFtray's HTTP Logs and VS Code REST Client Extension

#devops #programming #opensource #kubernetes

6 min read

Apr 3 '25

7 Top API Documentation Software Tools 2025 (With Reviews and Pricing)✨

#programming #webdev #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Apr 2 '25

5 Awesome n8n Alternatives

#opensource #webdev #ai #cloud

4 min read

Laetitia Perraut

Mar 5 '25

Understanding Financial Metrics: A Gateway to Open Source Sustainability

#opensource #financialmetrics #sustainability

3 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Apr 4 '25

Convert Your Images to Ghibli Style in a Fully Private and Local Environment

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Apr 4 '25

UploadingState component in FilePizza codebase.

#opensource #javascript #filepizza #uploading

3 min read

Apr 3 '25

DATA TYPES IN JAVA

#programming #beginners #java #opensource

3 min read

Mar 26 '25

[Agentica] Every TypeScript Developer is an AI Developer

#programming #typescript #opensource #ai

3 min read

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