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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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SPL Open Source Community

Oct 15

Is SPL more difficult or easier than SQL?

#discuss #programming #opensource #sql

15 min read

Dagi Zewdu

Oct 15

🚀 From Chatbot to Digital Human: The Power of AI Avatars

#ai #llm #opensource

1 min read

Lymah

Oct 14

Getting started with goose on Windows

#goose #ai #opensource #mcp

12 min read

Anh Duy

Oct 19

A Handy All-in-One Web Tool That Makes Daily File and Image Tasks Super Easy

#productivity #webdev #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Software Developer

Oct 15

50 Most Useful Linux Commands 🐧

#opensource #linux #commandline #devops

3 min read

Sep 11

🚀 Veille tech semaine 37

#news #opensource #ai #php

3 min read

Oct 24

Why I Built a Free Security Scanner That Makes Sense

#cybersecurity #opensource #security #devops

5 min read

Oct 15

Mime package in Nitro codebase.

#server #nitro #mime #opensource

2 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 14

Breaking Barriers: AI Empowers Nepali Sign Language Recognition by Arvind Sundararajan

#a11y #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

Oct 14

The State of Apache Iceberg v4 - October 2025 Edition

#dataengineering #architecture #opensource #database

6 min read

Mak Sò

Oct 14

🧠Introducing OrKa Cloud API

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #mlops

12 min read

Antonio

Oct 14

# TRAE.ai with Memory: No More Re-briefing, 98% Time Saved

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

11 min read

Sep 11

A Quick Take on K8s 1.34 GA DRA: 7 Questions You Probably Have

#ai #devops #kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Sep 11

Symbol.iterator in Ripple codebase.

#ripple #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Hirushi Nethmini

Oct 13

🌟 Join My Office Dashboard Project for Hacktoberfest 2025 — Perfect for Beginners!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Jessica Temporal

Oct 15

Learn to make pull requests using GitHub Codespaces and contribute to open source

#opensource #github #git #hacktoberfest

10 min read

Oct 24

Building A Keyboard-First Video Player with Svelte & Rust

#svelte #rust #opensource #programming

3 min read

NocoBase

Oct 15

NocoBase in Russia: Multi-Scenario Digital Solutions in Action

#news #opensource #database #nocode

6 min read

Sep 11

Open-source app for booking meeting rooms

#opensource #kmp #kotlin #automation

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Sep 15

Who Is Responsible When Algorithms Rule? Reintroducing Human Accountability in Executable Governance

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

Sreenath

Sep 10

How to Generate Code in Vim Without Leaving Your Editor (llmswap Tutorial)

#vim #tutorial #ai #opensource

5 min read

Adem Kouki

Oct 14

FlashFuzz ⚡Quick URL Fuzzing & Secret Scanning, straight from your browser

#webdev #opensource #security #webtesting

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Wesley Bertipaglia

Oct 13

🧑‍💻 How a Simple Idea Turned Into One of the Most Important Projects of My Journey — The Story Behind Backend Challenges

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Sep 11

One line of code caused the SeaTunnel Kafka connector to eat 12GB of memory in 5 mins!

#programming #bigdata #apacheseatunnel #opensource

2 min read

JPlus

Oct 14

🚀 Introducing JPlus – The Java Superset Language You've Been Waiting For!

#jplus #java #programming #opensource

1 min read

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