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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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May 8 '25

Navigating Financial Sustainability in Open Source Projects

#opensource #financialsustainability #blockchain

7 min read

May 8 '25

Open Source Sponsorship and Backing: Fueling Innovation in the Digital Age

#opensource #sponsorship #digitalinnovation

9 min read

May 8 '25

Navigating Financial Stability in Open Source: Strategies for Long-Term Funding

#opensource #financialsustainability #blockchainintegration

9 min read

May 8 '25

Open Source Project Financial Planning: A Key to Sustainability

#opensource #financialplanning #sustainability

7 min read

Mayank Kumar Chaudhari

Jun 11 '25

🧠 Kosha – A 450-byte Global State Manager for React (Highly Optimized and with Middleware Support)

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Laetitia Perraut

May 7 '25

Open Source Project Financial Independence: A Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation

#opensource #financialindependence #sustainableinnovation

8 min read

May 7 '25

Financial Viability & Metrics in Open Source Projects – A Deep Dive into Economic Growth, Sponsorship, and Innovative Funding

#opensource #crowdfunding #blockchain

9 min read

May 7 '25

Exploring Economic Models for Open Source Projects

#opensource #economicmodels #blockchain

9 min read

perber

Jun 10 '25

LeafWiki now supports ARM64 – run your Markdown wiki on Raspberry Pi

#devjournal #devops #raspberrypi #opensource

1 min read

fmerian

Jun 1 '25

Who's hiring — June 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

varun

May 7 '25

My Journey Into The World of Free and Open Source Software(FOSS)

#opensource #linux #github #gitlab

2 min read

Ice Kuroba

May 7 '25

Aplicación de la ciberseguridad en grandes empresas: retos y estrategias modernas

#discuss #beginners #opensource #learning

1 min read

clxrity

Jun 9 '25

Learn to think like a programmer with the most amazing project series I found on YouTube

#nextjs #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Leeanna Marshall

Jun 17 '25

12 Accessibility Problems That Automated Tools Fail to Detect

#devops #opensource #powerautomate #webdev

5 min read

Zhang Wei

May 7 '25

Crowdfunding Open Source Development and Blockchain Innovation: A New Era of Sustainable Funding

#crowdfunding #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

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