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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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Hishantik Sarkar

Feb 11 '25

Gaming on Linux Using Wine/Proton with DXVK & Lutris: A Complete Guide

#linux #opensource

3 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Feb 6 '25

10 Must-Know Open Source Platform Engineering Tools for AI/ML Workflows

#programming #ai #opensource #devops

6 min read

Feb 10 '25

Bind Mount

#docker #opensource #bindmount #cloud

4 min read

Feb 10 '25

🌦️ Responsive React Weather Forecast App – Open-Source Project 🚀

#react #webdev #opensource #githubprojects

1 min read

Feb 21 '25

10 Open-Source Documentation Frameworks to Check Out

#webdev #documentation #opensource

7 min read

techtech

Feb 10 '25

🔊 New Open Source Podcast

#techtalks #podcast #opensource

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 20 '25

Our Project Got 100 First Stars on Github🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Feb 10 '25

DeepSeek-R1: Redefining the Reinforcement Learning in AI

#deepseek #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

zvone187

Jan 30 '25

How We Made Sure Big Companies Can’t Steal Our Code

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #startup

3 min read

Feb 10 '25

🚀Introducing AnonyPost: A Social Media App for Anonymous Sharing

#javascript #react #socialmedia #opensource

1 min read

BasitJawad

Feb 10 '25

GitHub 2FA Issue Solved

#webdev #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Feb 10 '25

Compensating Open Source Maintainers: A Necessary Shift

#monetizeopensource #opensource #maintainers #compensation

2 min read

Dan Shalev for FalkorDB

Jan 20 '25

Reducing GraphRAG Indexing Costs

#discuss #programming #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Milica Maksimovic for Wasp

Mar 4 '25

Meet Marko Saric, Co-founder of Privacy-friendly Plausible Analytics

#opensource #buildinpublic #privacy #webdev

6 min read

Basebasket

Feb 10 '25

Developing ERP with Laravel and Livewire. Invitation for contributions.

#laravel #livewire #php #opensource

2 min read

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