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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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Mar 17 '25

Unveiling Fair License: A New Era in Open Source Fairness

#opensource #fairlicensing #ethicalsoftwaredevelopment

3 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 19 '25

Mastering the mkdir Command in Linux (Made Simple & Practical)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Apr 20 '25

When Gandhi met Satoshi

#blockchain #bitcoin #opensource

2 min read

Runix

Mar 17 '25

I Built an Open-Source AI Chatbot That You Can Fully Own – No Vendor Lock-In! 🚀

#opensource #ai #productivity #python

1 min read

Apr 19 '25

Showcasing My A–Z Ethereum Wallet Project: Features & Insights

#wallet #ethereum #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Jialu

Apr 20 '25

Open Source MCP Playground - TRMX.Ai

#mcp #agents #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jaime Hernández

Apr 20 '25

🧠 JSON AI Inspector: Analyzing JSON with AI (Open Source Tool)

#python #ai #json #opensource

2 min read

Apr 19 '25

Day 5/30 Days of Linux Mastery: User Account Management Like a Pro

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

5 min read

Guergana Tzatchkova

Apr 17 '25

Working on the Open Data Editor at the Open Knowledge Foundation

#opensource #react #opendata #electron

2 min read

NoAngel

Mar 16 '25

BEAR OS: The best kernel.

#programming #opensource #linux #c

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 19 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 8)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Apr 18 '25

Integrating MCP Servers

#ai #llm #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Apr 19 '25

How I Built Soplang — A Programming Language Inspired by Somali (And Why You Don’t Start From Scratch)

#programming #soplang #opensource #somalia

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 8 '25

Mastering the 'mv' Command in Linux: Move, Organize, and Rename Like a Pro

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 18 '25

Top 25 Linux Commands You’ll Use Every Day (with examples)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

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