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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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Oxford Harrison

Mar 5 '25

A Fresh Take On Reactivity

#webdev #javascript #reactivity #opensource

13 min read

paulboguta

Mar 5 '25

19 Open Source Tools You Can Self-Host

#opensource #sideprojects #developers

5 min read

Mar 5 '25

Exploring the Motivations Behind Open Source Contributions: A Deep Dive

#opensource #community #innovation

3 min read

Judith-Data-Processing-Hacks

Mar 5 '25

Uncertain Number but Regular Column to Row Conversion — From SQL to SPL #7

#sql #dataengineering #opensource #esprocspl

2 min read

BestCodes

Mar 13 '25

Gemma 3: Google's Open Multimodal Model with Long Context & Vision

#news #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 5 '25

Harnessing Open Source Cybersecurity: A Robust Defense Against Cyberwarfare

#opensource #cybersecurity #cyberwarfare

3 min read

Mar 5 '25

oxlint.json in Preact source code.

#oxlint #rust #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Mar 5 '25

Automation Takeover: 10 Industries Being Transformed by AI

#ai #opensource #deepseek #webdev

3 min read

Mar 4 '25

Understanding Video Streaming and Optimize Media Downloads 📽️📂

#news #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 4 '25

Enhancing Open Source Visibility with License-Token

#opensource #licensetoken #discoverability

3 min read

Mar 4 '25

The Future of Digital Art: Merging Blockchain, NFTs, and Open Source Sustainability

#digitalart #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

Mar 4 '25

🚀📈 Streamline Your Frontend Development with node-morph-api

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

NeuralLang

Mar 4 '25

Neural v0.2.1: Macros, Fixes, and PyTorch Training Loop!

#showdev #deeplearning #ai #opensource

3 min read

Mar 4 '25

Indie Hacking with Open Source Tools: Innovating on a Budget

#indiehacking #opensource #innovation

4 min read

Team TigerData for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Mar 4 '25

PostgreSQL Extensions: Using PostGIS for Geospatial and Time-Series Data

#postgres #opensource #database #devops

3 min read

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