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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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Parmesh B

Jun 27 '25

From V8 to Event Loop: The Inner Anatomy of Node.js

#node #webdev #javascript #opensource

6 min read

SetraTheX

Jun 26 '25

How I Built a Smarter ZIP Engine with AI: My Day 9 & 10 Journey (Pagonic Project)

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #python

7 min read

Jun 25 '25

How to add Bug Tracking to your Apps (Free Open Source Tool) - Bugsink 🐞

#webdev #javascript #docker #opensource

5 min read

Satyabrata

Jun 25 '25

So you want to become better than 99% of programmers, right?

#career #programming #opensource #learning

2 min read

May 24 '25

Developing a High Frequency Trading Software

#programming #beginners #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

May 24 '25

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 27 '25

Real-World Project Management: The Unwritten Rules

#opensource #softwareengineering #webdev #devresolutions2024

3 min read

Hritik Raj

May 28 '25

Building a Distributed Voting App with Docker: A Hands-On Guide

#devops #docker #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Sebastian Schürmann

Jun 26 '25

Open-Source & Cyber Resilience Act - Differing opinions aside

#cra #opensource #compliance

4 min read

May 23 '25

Day 30 of #30DayLinuxChallenge — From “Wait, What’s a Terminal?” to “Let’s Partition This Thing!”

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 26 '25

LLMs Under Fire: Red Teaming with DeepTeam + Ollama

#deepteam #opensource #llm #ollama

10 min read

Supun Wickramarachchi

May 23 '25

🚀 Building My Own Mars Rover Simulator with Python & Tkinter

#softwareengineering #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

May 23 '25

Day 10: CTRL+ALT+WOW — Our Command-Line Glow-Up Recap!

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

4 min read

May 23 '25

How I structured my Graphics API (PiGEF)

#api #graphicsapi #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

Jun 26 '25

Building Your First Kotlin Multiplatform App: From Setup to iOS App Store with Compose Multiplatform (2025 Guide)

#kotlin #mobile #android #opensource

10 min read

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