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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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Aug 15 '25

Meet Termix — Beautiful Terminal based file navigator

#dotent #cli #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 15 '25

Project of the Week: Chart.js

#discuss #opensource #github #javascript

2 min read

Aug 15 '25

Migration from Pocket and Hatena Bookmark to Raindrop.io (and Creating helm-raindrop.el)

#productivity #opensource #emacs #emacslisp

4 min read

Jul 12 '25

Getting Started with Linux: A Beginner's Guide to Basic Commands

#linux #opensource #webdev #beginners

4 min read

Aug 4 '25

How to find projects that are easy to contribute to?

#opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 12 '25

Protocol Without Prognosis: When Syntax Commands in Clinical AI

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Siddhesh

Aug 15 '25

Introducing NeuroVerse Beta‑3 — Modular, Private AI Assistant for Android

#programming #opensource #android #mobile

2 min read

Pavel

Aug 14 '25

I Built an Honest AI Agent to Fight Hallucinations. Here's How It Works.

#ai #tutorial #opensource #node

3 min read

Om Shree

Aug 14 '25

Why MCP Uses JSON-RPC Instead of REST or gRPC

#ai #tutorial #opensource #learning

3 min read

Jul 11 '25

My First Day In JAVA, introduction and JDK, JRE, JVM and Features.

#beginners #java #programming #opensource

2 min read

Aug 14 '25

GitHub's August 2025 AI Updates: What Every Developer Needs to Know

#githubactions #chatgpt #githubcopilot #opensource

4 min read

Aug 3 '25

I was tired of TypeScript's nested object hell, so I built ts-safe-path

#javascript #typescript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Yatharth Sanghavi

Aug 14 '25

🎨 Building a Stunning AI Image Generator with Flutter: From Idea to App Store

#flutter #ai #mobiledev #opensource

4 min read

w4t3r

Aug 14 '25

Spring Boot Python Executor: Integrating Java and Python

#java #springboot #python #opensource

3 min read

Aug 13 '25

"Stop Breaking Context: Smarter Text Chunking for Python NLP Projects"

#python #nlp #opensource #rag

2 min read

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