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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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Melih

Jul 8 '25

Stop Paying $500/Month to Experiment with AI - Run Everything Locally with LocalCloud

#ai #aiops #opensource #developertools

5 min read

Jun 25 '25

Introducing CursorNinja – One Script to Install, Update & Setup the Cursor Editor!

#linux #opensource #beginners #ai

1 min read

Jun 24 '25

React Native Animated Content Scroll - Update

#reactnative #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 24 '25

Hands-on Go — Advancing with Practical Examples

#opensource #go #programming #webdev

2 min read

motion team for Motion

Jun 24 '25

How One Engineer Saved Us $110K and Ended Our Database Nightmare 🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Taha A.

Jul 29 '25

How Dictator Turns Cursor into a Voice-Activated Coding Assistant

#ai #opensource #cursor #dictator

3 min read

Jul 28 '25

Turning VS Code into a Product Framework

#webdev #ai #vscode #opensource

7 min read

Niladri Chakraborty

Jun 24 '25

Tired of a Messy Downloads Folder? Try Declutter CLI!

#node #cli #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 26 '25

A Laravel Gym Management System with Workout & Nutrition Plan Features 🏋️

#laravel #php #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Alexandru Biscoveanu

Jul 17 '25

Episode 1: Reimagining Assembly for the 21st Century

#showdev #opensource #programming #cpp

7 min read

Roberto

Jun 24 '25

🚀 Tirne — Zero-Boilerplate APIs with Edge-Native Speed & Type-Safe Architecture

#showdev #webdev #opensource #backend

2 min read

Valentine Kalu for SqueHub

Jul 28 '25

🚀 Introducing SqueHub — The PHP Framework for Modern Web Developers

#webdev #programming #php #opensource

2 min read

Santiago Rincón

Jul 28 '25

From Chaos to Clarity: Help Us Build an Open-Source Brainstorm Engine

#opensource #python #ai #contributorswanted

2 min read

Jun 24 '25

0.email frontend is built using react-router framework.

#zero #email #react #opensource

2 min read

Younes

Jun 24 '25

Discover Trending and Essential npm Packages with NPM Leaderboard

#npm #opensource #productivity #devtools

1 min read

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