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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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Sep 11 '25

Opencode + Grok Code Fast 1: A Powerful Free Combo for Terminal-Based AI Coding

#ai #coding #opensource #terminal

2 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 11 '25

Day 4 of “90 Days of Free Python Scripts”

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Havilah Academy

Sep 11 '25

Announcing the PlotSenseAI Hackathon 2025 🚀

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Sharon

Sep 11 '25

SafeLine WAF Hands-On: The Free Security Tool You Didn’t Know You Needed

#opensource #webdev #safeline #waf

3 min read

Valery Zinchenko for denshya

Sep 13 '25

New Framework Ripple? What about Others?

#discuss #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Sep 11 '25

Open-source app for booking meeting rooms

#opensource #kmp #kotlin #automation

1 min read

Somenath Mukhopadhyay

Sep 11 '25

Verifying a Classic: Simulating Poiseuille Flow with OpenFOAM and ParaView - the engineer in me is still alive...

#opensource #science #tooling

2 min read

M Shojaei

Sep 11 '25

Open Source AI

#ai #opensource #llm

11 min read

Judy

Sep 11 '25

The top N customers who accounted for half of the sales that year--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #esproc

2 min read

Water Run

Sep 21 '25

Bat-KV: Lightweight Key-Value Store for Windows Batch

#database #programming #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Abhishek I

Sep 10 '25

From Static Forms to Dynamic Configurator: Our Journey in PLM

#plm #digitaltransformation #opensource #react

3 min read

Sep 10 '25

Stop Writing Your Own Validators

#llm #python #opensource #openai

2 min read

Aug 30 '25

Instantly Convert PDFs to Structured JSON with JSONIFY

#opensource #webdev #ai #python

1 min read

Sep 10 '25

When a For Loop Powers Your Stock Backtester - Devlog

#programming #beginners #opensource #learning

3 min read

Sep 10 '25

Open-Source Observability Revolution: How Uptrace, OpenObserve, and Vector Solve Complexity, Cost, and Performance...

#observability #opensource #performance #costoptimisation

8 min read

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