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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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Bela Strittmatter

Feb 28 '25

Building a Next.js Website Editor

#webdev #nextjs #learning #opensource

7 min read

John Byrne

Feb 27 '25

10 Postman Alternatives That Will Transform Your Dev Workflow✨

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

14 min read

Sujith S for Zackriya Solutions

Feb 28 '25

The Future of AI in Meeting Management

#productivity #opensource #contributorswanted #rust

3 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Feb 17 '25

Cloud vs Open Source vs Commercial API Gateways: Which One Fits Your Needs?

#cloud #api #opensource #compa

4 min read

NocoBase

Feb 17 '25

[Tutorial] Task Management System

#nocode #opensource #lowcode #taskmanagement

3 min read

Feb 28 '25

State management in react-scan codebase.

#statemanagement #opensource #reactscan #signal

3 min read

Jan 25 '25

Introducing PrintLayout: A Flexible Directory Printer with More Features Than GNU Tree

#programming #go #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Wanda

Feb 28 '25

DeepSeek Open Source Week Day 5: 3FS

#deepseek #ai #devops #opensource

5 min read

Judy

Feb 28 '25

Farewell to Window Functions, Embrace esProc SPL

#sql #programming #devops #opensource

5 min read

miinhho

Feb 28 '25

Middleware Stream Architecture - with Asyncrush

#opensource #architecture #node #typescript

3 min read

Jan 24 '25

Tech Founders & Leaders: Join Temporal's Lunch & Learn at Sequoia Capital NYC!

#discuss #opensource #programming #devops

1 min read

Jan 25 '25

Right to be Forgotten and Open Source

#opensource #privacy #pidgin

5 min read

Vuong Le

Feb 28 '25

Install OpenProject with SSL and Enterprice token enabled

#tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Arindam Majumder

Feb 24 '25

All about Function Calling in LLMS

#ai #opensource #javascript #rag

8 min read

Mar 11 '25

[Open Source Project] Fresh Data For AI

#discuss #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

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