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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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Deep Shah

Feb 17 '25

🚀 How to Run Dolphin Uncensored AI Locally: A Step-by-Step Guide! 🦾

#ai #dolphinllm #opensource

2 min read

Feb 17 '25

Free and Open-Source Graphics Editing Tools

#tooling #opensource #free #editing

3 min read

Igor Fraga

Feb 17 '25

Open Source: Start your Path to Contribution

#opensource #career #programming #java

3 min read

Joodi

Feb 16 '25

Top 13 Most-Starred Open Source Next.js Projects on GitHub ⭐

#opensource #nextjs #javascript #react

3 min read

Judy

Feb 17 '25

The Simplest Eight Queens Code You’ll Find Online

#code #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

Sev

Feb 16 '25

Should I Open Source My Project If a Better Alternative Exists?

#opensource

1 min read

Feb 16 '25

Human Regex Gets TypeScript's Magic Typing 🚀

#webdev #javascript #opensource #regex

3 min read

Ayush Bhartia for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Feb 16 '25

The DeepSeek Revolution: The AI Game Changer You Need to Know About

#webdev #ai #opensource #deepseek

3 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 16 '25

The open source fastest URL shortener ever.

#opensource #tutorial #programming #rust

1 min read

Feb 16 '25

Pulumi Gestalt devlog #8

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

1 min read

Margaret Julian

Jan 17 '25

We launched an open-source Hydrogen theme on Remix

#opensource #frontend

1 min read

Suraj

Feb 16 '25

What is Open-Source? Beginners Guide How to Get Started.

#opensource

5 min read

Suraj

Feb 16 '25

Git & GitHub Demystified:A Practical Guide to Git & GitHub

#git #github #opensource #vcs

15 min read

Hadil Ben Abdallah

Feb 4 '25

🦊 React-Fox-Toast: A Silent but Powerful Presence in Your UI

#webdev #programming #opensource #coding

4 min read

Feb 15 '25

The Ultimate JavaScript Project Repository: 500+ Ideas for Developers 🚀

#javascript #opensource #beginners #100daysofcode

3 min read

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