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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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Paul SANTUS for AWS Community Builders

Mar 17 '25

Your framework sucks when it comes to cloud integration (and I believe AWS should do more about it)

#aws #opensource #framework #programming

3 min read

Fatih Felix Yildiz

Feb 11 '25

duplicati for backups

#duplicati #backups #opensource #selfhosted

2 min read

Mar 17 '25

useRouterMisuseWarning in Refine source code

#opensource #react #javascript #hooks

4 min read

Alex Roor

Mar 6 '25

AI Agents vs. Chatbots: What’s the Difference and Which One Do You Need?

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mince

Feb 15 '25

TOP 3 PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS YOU MUST USE 🤯

#programming #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Sathish

Mar 17 '25

Gemma 3: DeepMind's Leap in Multimodal AI

#ai #machinelearning #google #opensource

4 min read

Ayan

Feb 11 '25

Packaging and Distributing Flutter Desktop Apps: The Missing Guide for Open Source & Indie Developers - Packaging choco packages

#opensource #tutorial #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Pavan Belagatti for SingleStore

Apr 8 '25

Learn How to Build Robust RAG Applications Using Llama 4!

#ai #tutorial #opensource #database

5 min read

Augustus

Mar 17 '25

I open-sourced our Redis-based webhook replacement (And why you should try it)

#webdev #microservices #eventdriven #opensource

6 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Feb 10 '25

NoSQL Key-Value database with open web services

#nosql #opensource #cloud #javascript

3 min read

Maciej Budzyński

Feb 10 '25

AI, LocalLLM and DeepSeek. What is it all about and how to dive into the world of LLM?

#ai #opensource #python #llm

6 min read

Feb 10 '25

I built an AI agent to track my favourite Github repos

#opensource #github #ai #tooling

1 min read

Riccardo Bevoni

Feb 10 '25

Should I Build an Open Core Web App Crawler & Pentesting SaaS?

#programming #security #opensource #github

1 min read

Prolayjit Biswas

Mar 16 '25

Introduction to Git & GitHub

#github #git #opensource

4 min read

Anuj Dubey

Mar 16 '25

🎉 Breaking News: Your Resume Just Got a Glow-Up! 🎉

#webdev #javascript #tooling #opensource

1 min read

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