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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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Apr 21 '25

My Tech Stack in 2025

#development #programming #opensource #learning

4 min read

Sean van Zuidam for Fylgja CSS

Apr 21 '25

Fylgja 2.0 is Live

#news #css #fylgja #opensource

4 min read

Nickolay Selyutin

Apr 21 '25

Supercharge your .NET Configuration with Flash.Configuration

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 13 '25

Create Smart Forms Without JavaScript: The Magic of HTML and AJAX 🦉

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Genix

Apr 9 '25

Protocol Agnostic Framework

#discuss #opensource #programming #typescript

3 min read

CaioXyZ

Mar 18 '25

How I Created a Catchy README for My GitHub (+ Tips to Improve Yours!)

#github #readme #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

Apr 21 '25

A Simple Guide to ACLs in Linux

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #devops

3 min read

Dakshitha

Apr 21 '25

All Your APIs, One Control Plane: What's New in WSO2 API Manager’s Latest Release

#webdev #api #apigateway #opensource

4 min read

Mar 18 '25

Unveiling a New Era of Fair Code Licensing

#opensource #faircodelicensing #developercompensation

3 min read

Mar 18 '25

Unveiling Amsterdam License: A New Frontier for Fair Code

#amsterdamlicense #opensource #faircode

3 min read

Apr 21 '25

Outshining AI as a Developer: Strategy, Skill & Soul (Part 2) ✨

#news #ai #developer #opensource

2 min read

Leo M Cole

Apr 21 '25

Introducing AEPF: A Collaborative, Open-Source Ethical AI Initiative

#ai #opensource #ethicalai #git

2 min read

NocoBase

Apr 21 '25

Top 40 Open-source Developer Tools with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #ai #github #developer

14 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 20 '25

Mastering the cp Command in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Mar 17 '25

Unveiling a New Perspective on Software Licensing

#softwarelicensing #beerwarelicense #opensource

3 min read

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