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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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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Dec 2 '24

Run LangTrace – Open Source Observability Tool for LLM Applications

#observability #ai #opensource #llm

10 min read

GitNation

Dec 2 '24

JSNation 2025

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Eshan Roy (eshanized)

Dec 1 '24

Introducing Snigdha OS: A Fresh Take on Open-Source Operating Systems

#opensource #linux #archlinux #programming

3 min read

anu

Oct 29 '24

AI-Powered Low Code Application Development: Revolutionizing Enterprise Efficiency and Innovation

#development #api #opensource #ai

5 min read

Aria Diniz

Dec 1 '24

Understanding and Solving False Sharing in Multi-threaded Applications with an actual issue I had

#computerscience #c #opensource #programming

3 min read

𐌔𐋅𐌀𐌍𐌊𐌔

Dec 2 '24

Using Open Source Models

#opensource #webdev #tensorflow #machinelearning

2 min read

Tala

Dec 2 '24

Chat with Your Google Sheets Using ChatGPT: Make Your Data Work for You

#python #opensource #chatgpt #google

3 min read

Dec 2 '24

Open Source Unleashed: Benefits and Contributions

#opensource #webdev #programming #contributorswanted

4 min read

Carrie

Dec 2 '24

How to Prevent SQL Injection with SafeLine WAF

#opensource #cybersecurity #webdev

2 min read

Dec 2 '24

Color Palette is served with ShadCn Theme Editor

#frontend #shadcn #css #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 1 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #205

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Dec 1 '24

How to Install Nextcloud on Docker

#docker #cloud #data #opensource

12 min read

Dec 2 '24

🚀 Introducing the Invoice Tool: Generate Professional Invoices in Minutes

#opensource #freelance #webdev #invoice

3 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Dec 2 '24

OSD Final Chapter: Part 2

#opensource #java #javafx

3 min read

aadenboy

Dec 1 '24

Turning VSCode Into an Art Program (sorta)

#vscode #devlog #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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