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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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GitHubOpenSource

Jul 22 '25

Revolutionizing Novel Writing: Introducing novelWriter

#novel #text #opensource #python

3 min read

Elizabeth Mattijsen

Aug 13 '25

CRA and Open Source

#rakulang #cra #opensource

4 min read

Peter H. Boling

Aug 25 '25

💎 ANN: kettle-dev v1, part 1

#opensource #ruby #tooling #webdev

3 min read

Aug 24 '25

Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Production: From 2000ms to 800ms with Real Code Examples

#blockchain #security #web3 #opensource

6 min read

Fossa Technology

Jul 21 '25

Build Better UX: Free QR Code Generator for Developers, Designers & Makers

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #productivity

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 21 '25

How Generative Models Misclassify Business Transactions, and Why It Is a Structural, Not Semantic, Problem

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

Yatharth Sanghavi

Aug 24 '25

How to Build a Telegram Movie Bot with Python: Complete Guide to Moviezinfo Bot Development 🎬

#telegram #python #opensource #api

8 min read

Aug 4 '25

🛡️ UHT-Framework: A Modern Hacking Toolkit for Ethical Hackers & Pentesters

#opensource #cybersecurity #linux #termux

2 min read

Jul 21 '25

Scaling Without Limits: Auto-Sharding for the AI-Driven Future

#web3 #ai #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Joshua Dimaunahan

Jul 21 '25

How I Made GitHub Open Source PRs Without Login in My VSCode Theme

#github #opensource #programming #javascript

1 min read

Sep 10 '25

Why I built Wuchale: Protobuf-like i18n from plain code

#i18n #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jul 20 '25

Launching ANCP — Secure Login for AI Agents Without VPN or OAuth

#ai #security #authentication #opensource

2 min read

Rijin Raju

Aug 23 '25

I Created OctaneDB – The Lightning-Fast Python Vector Database!

#showdev #python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Lucas M.

Jul 24 '25

How to set a timeout to RSpec test executions

#rails #ruby #opensource #programming

11 min read

Misha Zaslavskiy

Aug 22 '25

Licenses monitoring dashboard installation

#cad #grafana #prometheus #opensource

5 min read

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