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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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Jun 16 '25

🚀 Help Shape the Future of Angular UI – Cerious Widgets is Looking for Contributors!

#angular #opensource #components #javascript

2 min read

Maksim Balabash

May 26 '25

How to Create a VSCode Extension That Uses a Machine Learning Model Under the Hood

#opensource #ai #learning #javascript

11 min read

xuri

May 12 '25

Excelize 2.9.1 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document

#go #excel #excelize #opensource

4 min read

May 12 '25

Kubernetes: Handling Crashes, Scaling, and Rollbacks

#ai #productivity #devops #opensource

4 min read

Reza Fa

May 12 '25

What Angular Libraries Are You Missing? Let’s Build Them – Together (Open Source)

#angular #community #opensource

1 min read

Jun 15 '25

🛡️ A Swahili SMS Scam Dataset and a Machine Learning Tool to Use It

#datascience #machinelearning #opensource #python

3 min read

Code Area

May 12 '25

4 Best Frontend Frameworks in 2025: Which One Should You Choose?

#beginners #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

May 12 '25

Plexe - ML models from a prompt

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #data

3 min read

Leonardo Gonçalves

May 12 '25

Virtual RAM & CPU in JavaScript

#programming #javascript #opensource #node

1 min read

Dmitry

May 12 '25

Built nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server

#opensource #terminal #devops #monitoring

3 min read

May 12 '25

What is BigchainDB? Exploring Open Source Funding, Licensing, and the Future of Blockchain Databases

#bigchaindb #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

Zhang Wei

May 12 '25

What is cosmos-python? The Open Source Business Model, Funding, and Community

#cosmospython #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

Jun 15 '25

Ambient lighting - DIY

#esp32 #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

May 12 '25

What is pycardano? The Open Source Business Model, Funding, and Community

#pycardano #opensource #blockchain

9 min read

May 13 '25

Day 19/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery: File Viewing Commands (cat, less, more, head, tail)

#redhat #opensource #cloudwhistler #beginners

3 min read

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