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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 27 '25

My first deep dive into creating open source projects

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Apr 25 '25

[Agentica] Backend Developers, Automate Frontend Development. Much better than Vibe Coding.

#programming #typescript #opensource #ai

5 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 26 '25

Part 2: Why Your AI is Stuck in a Memento Loop

#ai #aiops #opensource #rag

3 min read

Manuk

Apr 26 '25

Building Relaticle: A Free & Open Source CRM with Laravel 12 & Filament 3

#laravel #php #opensource #crm

3 min read

Apr 26 '25

🎬 Linux Sitcom Episode: "The One Where They Manage User Accounts"

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

2 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 3 '25

Best Alpine.js Alternative

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

Carrie

Apr 15 '25

What is a WAF? Why and When Do You Need a WAF?

#webdev #security #waf #opensource

2 min read

Apr 22 '25

[Agentica] Why your MCP server fails (how to make 100% successful MCP server)

#typescript #programming #opensource #mcp

12 min read

Apr 26 '25

Day 8/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery: Access Control List

#cloudwhistler #redhat #devops #opensource

4 min read

Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 25 '25

Ingest (almost) any non-PDF document in a vector database, effortlessly

#python #ai #opensource #vectordatabase

3 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Apr 25 '25

Introducing: Project of the Week!

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Apr 22 '25

Migrating from Rails to Go and keeping strong conventions

#rails #go #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Blurbify

Apr 25 '25

Open Source AI: The Double-Edged Sword Devs Can’t Stop Talking About

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deepseek

2 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 26 '25

Understanding Types of Users in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

May 9 '25

Project of the Week: TanStack Query

#discuss #programming #opensource #github

1 min read

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