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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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OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 12 '25

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 2)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #regex

4 min read

Leo Ko

Apr 11 '25

Automating CS Refund Inquiries with an AI Agent: Using Agentica

#typescript #opensource #programming #ai

6 min read

Apr 8 '25

🚀 Introducing Solaris UI v3 — A React Component Library I Built to Speed Up Development

#web #opensource #nextjs #react

1 min read

May 12 '25

Unveiling the BSD 3-Clause License: A Deep Dive into Open Source Permissiveness, Fairness, and Future Innovation

#bsd3clauselicense #opensource #blockchain

8 min read

May 12 '25

Five Things to Try First in RHEL 9 (Without Accidentally Blowing Anything Up)

#linux #opensource #beginners #cloudwhistler

4 min read

May 1 '25

“Everybody Loves Permissions” — Episode: The ACL Awakens (RHEL 9 Edition)

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

3 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 12 '25

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 1)

#cloudwhistler #linux #regex #opensource

4 min read

Ali Raza

May 12 '25

Built a tool to visualize the whole chain of call graphs of any function using static analysis

#softwaredevelopment #tooling #opensource #productivity

1 min read

May 12 '25

MIT License Explained: A Deep Dive into Open Source Permissiveness and Fair Code Practices

#mitlicense #opensource #faircode

9 min read

Apr 22 '25

patchedDependencies in Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

#opensource #notion #wiki #docmost

3 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

May 12 '25

grep Command in Linux

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

5 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Apr 17 '25

30+ MCP Ideas with Complete Source Code

#opensource #javascript #programming #tutorial

21 min read

VoxaCommunications-account for voxacommunications

Jun 4 '25

Looking for contributors. Opensource Decentralize Network and Blockchain

#programming #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

May 12 '25

What is Sawtooth Python SDK? The Open Source Business Model, Funding, and Community

#sawtoothpythonsdk #opensource #blockchain

8 min read

Sharon

May 12 '25

Your Firewall Is Lying to You — Try This Open-Source WAF Instead

#cybersecurity #webdev #opensource #safeline

2 min read

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