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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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Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Feb 28 '25

Backend Platforms Roundup 2025

#opensource #cloud #programming #backend

4 min read

Abijith B

Mar 1 '25

Adobe’s Monopoly on PDFs: The Innovation Bottleneck and the Need for Open-Source Alternatives

#opensource #pdf #linux #adobe

7 min read

Jisan Mia

Mar 1 '25

30+ String Manipulation Techniques in JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

11 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 18 '25

🚀 pgai Vectorizer: SQLAlchemy and LiteLLM Make Vector Search Simple

#ai #vectordatabase #postgres #opensource

3 min read

Fernando Guerra

Feb 28 '25

8 Open-Source Tools to Bootstrap Your SaaS 🚀

#opensource #python #react #bootstrap

3 min read

Max Zhuk

Mar 1 '25

Rust Web Start Kit — Jump-Start Your Web Development with Rust

#webdev #rust #opensource #api

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 28 '25

AWS open source newsletter, #207

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Rupesh Mangalam

Mar 1 '25

My Machine Learning Journey: From Beginner to Open-Source Contributor

#machinelearning #opensource #hackathon #learning

2 min read

AG2 Blogger for AG2

Feb 28 '25

Get Communicating with Discord, Slack, and Telegram

#opensource #discord #agents #telegram

9 min read

Andy

Mar 1 '25

What is Deepseek 3FS

#ai #opensource

2 min read

Astrodevil

Feb 27 '25

How to Make Your Postgres Database 100x Faster and 50% Cheaper with Readyset Cloud🚀⚡💵

#opensource #database #cloud #webdev

6 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 28 '25

8 Postgres Extensions You Need to Know

#opensource #postgres #database #productivity

6 min read

Vaibhav sisodiya

Jan 30 '25

Don't use DeepSeek R1 before this!

#ai #opensource #learning

2 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

Feb 27 '25

From Fun to Frustration: A Lone Wolf in the Open Source World

#opensource #programming #devjournal #productivity

2 min read

NocoBase

Feb 28 '25

Why Do Developers Struggle with Low-Code? (6 Tools That Actually Help)

#nocode #lowcode #opensource #developer

7 min read

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