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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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Evgenii Perminov

Mar 28 '25

How Cosine Similarity Helped My CLI Decide Where Files Belong (messy-folder-reorganizer-ai)

#llm #rust #cli #opensource

3 min read

Evgenii Perminov

Mar 28 '25

Adding RAG and ML to AI files reorganization CLI (messy-folder-reorganizer-ai)

#llm #cli #opensource #rag

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 18 '25

Detect Spoofing in Real Time Using Just SQL and Open-Source Tools

#tutorial #opensource #learning #datascience

8 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Apr 24 '25

What are Golden Paths in Platform Engineering?

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #cloud

4 min read

Shinetech Software

Mar 19 '25

Enhancing Shopify Dawn Theme with Scrolling Text

#shopify #programming #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Sa2shi

Mar 19 '25

Review my Project on GitHub

#discuss #github #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

dimusdim

Mar 14 '25

Multistep AI agentic workflow—with guardrails and no coding required

#ai #llm #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Sarthak Malhotra

Mar 14 '25

Gemini 50% cheaper with Batch API in Curator

#gemini #opensource #programming #github

2 min read

Apr 17 '25

"Enhanced"-end-to-end encryption (E-E2EE) to increase security and privacy

#security #cybersecurity #linux #opensource

5 min read

Apr 17 '25

useSWR usage in vercel/ai-chatbot hooks.

#opensource #vercel #useswr

3 min read

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling the FSF All Permissive License: Freedom, Flexibility, and Fair Code

#fsfallpermissivelicense #opensource #softwarelicensing

3 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Mar 14 '25

DocWire 2025.03.02 release is here

#news #cpp #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 17 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 6)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Simplr

Apr 17 '25

OpenAI Unleashes Codex CLI: Your Local AI Coding Agent Has Arrived (And There's $1M to Back It!)

#webdev #programming #opensource #openai

3 min read

Aymeric Ratinaud

Apr 17 '25

Get a free landing-page template now! 📈

#react #tailwindcss #opensource #template

2 min read

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