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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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Denis

Aug 9 '25

Creating our own package in php

#php #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

NocoBase

Jul 18 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

Hernan Chilabert

Aug 14 '25

I'm Building an AI Agent to Write My Unit Tests

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Mehuli Mukherjee

Aug 20 '25

Why Should Python have all the fun? Meet my new Java Library..

#programming #java #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Algis

Aug 20 '25

MCP Proxy Pattern: Secure, Retrieval-First Tool Routing for Agents

#mcp #llm #ai #opensource

18 min read

Mikolaj Kaminski

Aug 20 '25

🐝 BusyBee: Fast & Observable Background Job Processing for .NET

#dotnet #programming #csharp #opensource

2 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Aug 20 '25

10 Open-Source Projects You’ll Actually Use in 2025

#showdev #webdev #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jay

Aug 20 '25

A Personal Journey - Building My Own AI OS

#linux #opensource #ai #programming

2 min read

Chen Debra

Aug 20 '25

How to Batch Kill Running Workflows in Apache DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #bigdata #programming

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Aug 20 '25

RisingWave FAQs: Quick Intro in 30 Seconds (Part 1)

#news #opensource #rust #datascience

3 min read

Siswoyo Siswoyo

Aug 19 '25

10 DEV.to Features Every Member Should Know

#devto #opensource #developers #programming

3 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 30 '25

Who Gave the Order? When AI Issues Commands Without a Speaker

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

2 min read

Santhosh

Aug 13 '25

I Scraped 120 Years of Olympic History — and You Can Too

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Aug 18 '25

GSoC Week 11: Nearing the Finish Line with CircuitVerse

#gsoc #opensource #flutter #android

3 min read

Aug 19 '25

Developer Tooling #005

#webdev #opensource #github #productivity

1 min read

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