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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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Elanat Framework

Feb 12 '25

Welcome WebForms Core Technology to R: A New Era Begins

#r #github #opensource #webformscore

4 min read

Wanda

Feb 24 '25

Deepseek Open Source Week Kicked off with FlashMLA(Github Codebase Included!)

#deepseek #opensource #ai #developers

5 min read

Justin3go

Feb 5 '25

10 Creative & Open Source Portfolio Templates

#webdev #opensource #portfolio #github

3 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 12 '25

🛠️ Devs Share How They Saved $112K/Month in Database Costs with TimescaleDB

#aws #devops #database #opensource

1 min read

Feb 12 '25

How I Contributed to Kestra: A Beginner’s Perspective

#opensource #frontend #programming #javascript

4 min read

Dmitriy A.

Feb 12 '25

📦 spiderable-middleware update

#webdev #opensource #seo #npm

1 min read

Feb 11 '25

Game Changing Improvements to ArtistAssistApp in February 2025

#showdev #opensource #react #pwa

8 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 20 '25

Our Project Got 100 First Stars on Github🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

hayerhans

Feb 11 '25

Web Automation in Plain English: Browser Use Changes Everything

#ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Antonio

Jan 20 '25

Show us your Open-Source project

#discuss #programming #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Yilia for API7

Feb 11 '25

API Management vs API Gateway: A Detailed Comparison

#api #apigateway #opensource #tutorial

14 min read

Feb 10 '25

10 DeepSeek R1 Prompts for Coding That Actually Save You Time.

#deepseek #opensource #ai #productivity

3 min read

Suraj

Feb 11 '25

My LFX Mentorship Experience

#cloudforet #linuxfoundation #cloudnative #opensource

3 min read

Simplr

Feb 11 '25

Milvus: Your Vector Database Powerhouse – A Deep Dive

#vectordatabase #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Feb 6 '25

10 Must-Know Open Source Platform Engineering Tools for AI/ML Workflows

#programming #ai #opensource #devops

6 min read

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