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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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Val Giner

Jun 9 '25

Building a Modern Grep Alternative for Windows with .NET 9.0

#dotnet #csharp #windowsutility #opensource

2 min read

Benedetto Proietti for Janea Systems

Jul 9 '25

JECQ: Smart, Open-Source Compression for FAISS Users—6x Compression Ratio, 85% Accuracy

#opensource #ai #vectordatabase #machinelearning

6 min read

spread thoughts

Jul 9 '25

Odoo's Technical Ecosystem: Real-World Usage Data and Open Source Impact

#odoo #opensource #python #erp

4 min read

Jonathan

Jul 9 '25

I built a privacy-first authentication system at 17 - feedback?

#privacy #beginners #opensource #security

2 min read

Sharon

Jul 9 '25

ModSecurity vs SafeLine: Why Not Use Both? (Part 1)

#cybersecurity #opensource #docker #webdev

5 min read

Jul 8 '25

One Month into GSoC with AOSSIE: My Journey Building Perspective

#gsoc #opensource #webdev #langgraph

3 min read

Jul 8 '25

Do you need to be a programmer to contribute to open source projects?

#opensource #beginners

1 min read

Muhammad Ghufran

Jun 4 '25

Building an AI-Powered Git Commit Message Generator with Google Gemini

#git #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

Anisha R

Jun 5 '25

100 days of Coding! Day 6

#beginners #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jul 8 '25

Introducing AFM, the Arcee Foundation Model — June 18

#opensource #ai #enterprise #datascience

1 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Jul 8 '25

Spring Batch Clustering With Zero Messaging: Introducing spring-batch-db-cluster-partitioning (v1.0.0)

#springboot #springbatch #java #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo

Jul 9 '25

Make Your Machine Talk: Piper TTS Offline

#ai #opensource #piper #tts

3 min read

Jun 3 '25

🚀 From Idea to GitHub in 2 Days: Introducing InkCollector

#abotwrotethis #opensource #devjournal #python

2 min read

Dmitriy Kasperovich

Jul 7 '25

How I Hacked Together a Fully Functional Settings Page in Under 20 Minutes

#react #opensource #programming

5 min read

SteamPixel

Jul 7 '25

Visual Logic Without Code - Can This Change the Way We Build Flow-Based Systems?

#nocode #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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