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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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Sergey Ilyevsky

Jan 21 '25

Open Source Software Weaknesses – And a Possible Solution

#opensource #development

8 min read

Chen Debra

Dec 18 '24

Apache DolphinScheduler Restricts Timing Scheduling at the Second Level

#javascript #dolphinscheduler #opensource #technical

4 min read

Gittech

Dec 18 '24

Github's Top 31 items of Dec 18, 2024

#git #github #productivity #opensource

12 min read

kiraaziz

Jan 20 '25

What if we give tldraw superpowers? 🚀 Meet Neoflow!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jan 21 '25

The best Javascript library for structured logging

#javascript #webdev #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Muhammad Fahmi Rasyid

Jan 20 '25

Building a Board Game with React: Lessons Learned

#react #gamedev #learning #opensource

4 min read

Atul Anand for AWS Community Builders

Jan 20 '25

Save money on AWS by getting daily cost notifications for FREE!

#aws #opensource #serverless #cloud

4 min read

Nicolas

Jan 20 '25

Vue JS 3 Boilerplate

#vue #typescript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Judy

Jan 20 '25

10 lines of code to achieve handwritten digit recognition

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

5 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 20 '25

Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#opensource #programming #ai #hackathon

1 min read

Jan 20 '25

Expressly - Text Transformation App

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Thomas Bnt

Jan 7 '25

2025, me voilà ! 🥳

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #opensource

2 min read

Jan 15 '25

🎁 20 Open Source Projects You Shouldn't Miss in 2025

#opensource #webdev #github #productivity

5 min read

Sam

Jan 20 '25

0dev, agents that generate code

#ai #opensource #node #python

1 min read

Joodi

Jan 20 '25

Track Your GitHub Unfollowers with Ease! 👀🚫

#github #opensource #development #developers

1 min read

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