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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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Agustin V. Startari

Aug 18 '25

The Hidden Commands Inside AI Bureaucracy

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

4 min read

marcosomma

Aug 16 '25

🧠Can AI Learn to Care?

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #rag

4 min read

Aniket Raj

Aug 19 '25

Introducing SCAN - A Must Have Plugin

#showdev #kotlin #devops #opensource

2 min read

Aug 19 '25

I Built My First NPM Library: no-console-production

#npm #opensource #webdev #javascript

1 min read

Aniket Raj

Aug 18 '25

Project KARL

#showdev #kotlin #opensource #programming

4 min read

Aug 19 '25

Building a Cryptographically Secure Password Generator in C# .NET

#csharp #dotnet #cybersecurity #opensource

6 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Aug 18 '25

Metabase 56: Dashboard filters in more relevant places, time grouping for native queries, a new way to embed, and more

#opensource #analytics #dataviz #metabase

5 min read

aaravmahajanofficial for Gradle Community

Aug 18 '25

Gradle Convention Plugin for Developing Jenkins Plugins

#gradle #kotlin #jenkins #opensource

4 min read

Patryk Zdunowski

Aug 18 '25

Building an Open Source Content Developer Platform for Developers

#opensource #webdev #react #javascript

2 min read

Michael KARENGERA

Jul 20 '25

How I Built a Secure Terraform Module to Deploy EKS on AWS (and Launched It as a Product)

#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Aug 18 '25

🚀 Introducing OTel Sandbox: Your Zero-Config OpenTelemetry Playground

#opensource #go #analytics #opentelemetry

3 min read

Calum

Jul 15 '25

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1752504

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Ryan Banze

Aug 18 '25

🚀 Building Real-World AI: From Colab Pipelines to Desktop Apps

#showdev #opensource #machinelearning #ai

4 min read

Valery Zinchenko

Aug 18 '25

Embeddable Open Source Unity-like Editor for ThreeJS

#discuss #webdev #opensource #showdev

2 min read

Zeeshan Haider Shaheen

Aug 14 '25

Stop Fighting URL State in React: Introducing react-zod-url-state

#webdev #opensource #typescript #nextjs

3 min read

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