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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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Pierre Bouillon

Jul 24 '25

Our First Issue: Enhancing Queries With Sorting

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #pocketbase

7 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 21 '25

Estimating Time as a Developer: Why We Always Get It Wrong

#softwareengineering #webdev #opensource #devlive

3 min read

Griseld Gerveni

Jul 4 '25

🚀 Voice AI Workforce: One Voice Interface, Three User Types

#opensource #webdev #voiceinterface #ai

2 min read

Zak Mandhro for PullFlow

Jul 24 '25

Forked by Cursor: The Hidden Cost of VS Code Fragmentation

#programming #vscode #ai #opensource

5 min read

Luis Fernando Richter

Jul 25 '25

I Built an Tool to AI Agent Testing

#ai #python #testing #opensource

1 min read

Jul 24 '25

🛠️ Setting Up Fusio as an API Gateway for CRM & LLM Microservices

#python #crm #llm #opensource

2 min read

Methum Menthusa

Jul 24 '25

Building Devu a platform to help devs contribute to open source without the overwhelm

#opensource #community #productivity #codenewbie

1 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Jul 24 '25

I Stopped Writing Config Files Manually – Here's the AI Tool That Does It For Me

#python #opensource #nlp #openai

4 min read

Jun 24 '25

Quebrei a barreira do 'medo' de contribuir em open source e criei uma ferramenta para te ajudar também

#opensource #career #beginners

3 min read

Abdullah Al-Hakimi

Jul 24 '25

🚀 [Open Source] SmoothMotion – Clean, Smooth Animations in Jetpack Compose

#kotlin #animation #jetpackcompose #opensource

1 min read

Jul 13 '25

🎨 I Created My First VS Code Theme, Introducing VoidCore

#vscode #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jul 24 '25

Understanding NoSQL Databases: A Flexible Approach to Data Storage day 13 of learning system Design

#programming #productivity #python #opensource

4 min read

Jul 24 '25

From Local to Global: Learning Git & GitHub

#git #github #beginners #opensource

4 min read

DASWU

Jun 20 '25

JuiceFS 1.3 Beta 2 Integrates Apache Ranger for Fine-Grained Access Control

#opensource

4 min read

Samy Fodil

Jul 23 '25

Your Software, Your Cloud: Building Your Own Vercel Ain't That Hard!

#devops #cloud #selfhosted #opensource

6 min read

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