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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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30 Days of Python: From Zero to Python Pro

#python #opensource #beginners #programming

2 min read

Gianluca

Mar 4 '25

Click-to-Cluster: GitOps EKS Provisioning

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

7 min read

Satoshi S. for Web Dev Path

Mar 14 '25

My Experience with OpenStack Ironic

#opensource #mlh #python #devops

4 min read

Feb 13 '25

Navigating Financial Challenges in Open Source Projects

#projectfunding #opensource #financialchallenges #sustainability

2 min read

Gittech

Mar 14 '25

30+ Must-See GitHub Projects of This Week!

#webdev #beginners #opensource #github

15 min read

NocoBase

Mar 4 '25

Markdown Blocks Tips and Tricks

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 15 '25

Data Indexing and Common Challenges

#discuss #rag #ai #opensource

3 min read

Gorkem Ercan for Jozu

Mar 14 '25

The KitOps Methodology

#opensource #machinelearning #programming #learning

3 min read

Carrie

Feb 8 '25

Finally, I Found the Best WAF for My Websites!

#webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Sayed Ali Alkamel

Mar 14 '25

Google Gemma 3 Unlocked: The 128K-Token Multimodal AI Breakthrough Every Developer Must Explore

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

5 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Mar 14 '25

A Step-by-Step Guide to Install Gemma-3 Locally with Ollama or Transformers

#google #ai #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Mar 13 '25

Building AI Ready Development Environments: How Daytona Powers Code Agents

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Carrie

Feb 8 '25

My Journey with SafeLine: A Practical Tool for Web Security

#opensource #cybersecurity #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Mar 14 '25

LLVM vs. GCC: A Comprehensive Comparison

#opensource #programming #gnu

2 min read

Feb 13 '25

Mastering Duration Conversions with Duratii

#javascript #npm #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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