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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 6 '25

Open Source Developer Compensation Plans: Navigating Rewards in Collaborative Code

#opensource #developercompensation #blockchainintegration

10 min read

May 6 '25

Exploring the Motivations Behind Open Source Contributions: A Deep Dive into Community, Innovation, and Impact

#opensource #community #innovation

9 min read

May 6 '25

Financial Planning and Sustainability for Open Source Developers: Navigating Financial Independence

#financialplanning #opensource #sustainability

8 min read

Jinho Seo

May 6 '25

오픈 소스와 오픈 웨이트의 차이점

#오픈소스 #opensource #오픈웨이트 #openweight

1 min read

May 10 '25

None of the top 10 projects in GitHub is actually a software project 🤯

#github #opensource

3 min read

Kushal_Meghani1644

Jun 15 '25

🚀 Introducing RustyTodos: A Clean, Minimal TUI Todo App in Rust

#programming #opensource #learning #rust

1 min read

May 6 '25

Vyomtracker API is now open-source!

#opensource #postman #api #webdev

1 min read

Timi Agama

May 6 '25

Securing $1 Downloads in Emerging Markets

#javascript #security #opensource

7 min read

May 6 '25

Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Meets Economics

#opensource #capitalism #blockchain

7 min read

May 6 '25

Leveraging Open Compensation Token License (OCTL) for a Sustainable Open Source Ecosystem

#octl #opensource #developercompensation

8 min read

May 5 '25

Mintable's Blockchain Impact on Open Source Software: A New Dawn for Intellectual Property & Collaboration

#blockchain #opensource #nftlicensing

8 min read

Zhang Wei

May 5 '25

Microsoft's Journey into Open Source: From Proprietary Past to Collaborative Future

#microsoft #opensource #cloudcomputing

8 min read

May 19 '25

Open Source News Q1 2025: Thriving Ecosystem or New Challenges Ahead?

#opensource #blockchainfunding #tokenizedlicensing

9 min read

May 5 '25

License-Token: Enhancing Open Source Project Visibility – A Deep Dive

#licensetoken #opensource #blockchain

7 min read

May 5 '25

Malai - Share your dev server (and more) over P2P

#rust #tooling #opensource

3 min read

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