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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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paulboguta

Mar 5 '25

19 Open Source Tools You Can Self-Host

#opensource #sideprojects #developers

5 min read

Mar 5 '25

Exploring the Motivations Behind Open Source Contributions: A Deep Dive

#opensource #community #innovation

3 min read

Judith-Data-Processing-Hacks

Mar 5 '25

Uncertain Number but Regular Column to Row Conversion — From SQL to SPL #7

#sql #dataengineering #opensource #esprocspl

2 min read

Mar 5 '25

Harnessing Open Source Cybersecurity: A Robust Defense Against Cyberwarfare

#opensource #cybersecurity #cyberwarfare

3 min read

Mar 5 '25

oxlint.json in Preact source code.

#oxlint #rust #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Mar 4 '25

Understanding Video Streaming and Optimize Media Downloads 📽️📂

#news #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 4 '25

🚀📈 Streamline Your Frontend Development with node-morph-api

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

NeuralLang

Mar 4 '25

Neural v0.2.1: Macros, Fixes, and PyTorch Training Loop!

#showdev #deeplearning #ai #opensource

3 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Mar 4 '25

PostgreSQL Extensions: Using PostGIS for Geospatial and Time-Series Data

#postgres #opensource #database #devops

3 min read

Judy

Mar 4 '25

This Is Probably the Most Lightweight Columnar Storage Technology

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mar 4 '25

Blockchain and Open Source: A New Dawn of Innovation

#blockchain #opensource #innovation

3 min read

Sujith S for Zackriya Solutions

Mar 4 '25

The Power of Open Source in Enterprise Software

#opensource #productivity #ai #cloud

4 min read

Carrie

Mar 4 '25

Why I Choose to Use a Chinese WAF?

#cybersecurity #website #docker #opensource

3 min read

Bruh Buh

Mar 4 '25

13 GitHub Projects that Supercharge Your AI and Development Journey 🚀

#github #opensource #programming #python

10 min read

Luis Fernando De Pombo for backmesh

Mar 3 '25

Quickly compare cost and results of different LLMs on the same prompt

#discuss #deepseek #ai #opensource

1 min read

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