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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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Tim-Smans

Apr 27 '25

Built a Node.js CLI to clone a specific directory from any GitHub repo – looking for feedback

#node #cli #github #opensource

1 min read

May 30 '25

AIaaS : The Real Boss of Today

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

May 30 '25

✅ Laravel Cookie Consent – Plug & play GDPR/DSGVO modal

#laravel #php #opensource #plugin

1 min read

Jun 17 '25

Pulumi Gestalt 0.0.3 released

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

1 min read

Apr 30 '25

The RHEL9 Roommates: A Sitcom Guide to Cloud Career Glory

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

4 min read

May 30 '25

🌟 Introducing Gold: A Creative Programming Language for the Modern Web

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Thiago Quinalia

Jun 10 '25

LibreBlog — An in-browser Static Site Generator focused on content-rich blogs and news websites

#blog #staticwebsites #opensource #freespeech

2 min read

Jun 16 '25

Kubuntu might be the revive potion you are looking for your old laptop 🐦‍🔥

#discuss #linux #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Sharon

May 30 '25

Can This Open Source WAF Stop SQL Injection Attacks?

#opensource #webdev #waf #sqlinjection

2 min read

RunC.AI Offical for RunC.AI

May 30 '25

How to deploy ComfyUI on RunC.AI

#discuss #tutorial #opensource #ai

5 min read

Jun 16 '25

I needed a clean, fast time zone converter. Ended up building one – whatsthetime.online

#webdev #beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Sharon

May 19 '25

Why SafeLine Might Be the Best Open Source WAF You Haven’t Tried Yet

#websecurity #waf #opensource #devops

2 min read

Jun 13 '25

Django Interview Questions & Key Concepts – Part 4

#programming #python #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Tom

Jun 13 '25

Snippai: An AI-Powered Screenshot Tool to Replace Snagit, Snipaste, and ShareX

#ai #javascript #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

May 29 '25

A Step-by-Step Guide to Install DeepSeek-R1-0528 Locally with Ollama, vLLM or Transformers

#deepseek #openai #ai #opensource

10 min read

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