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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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May 28 '25

CyberVault: A Fully Local, Open-Source Password Manager Built with C#

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #security

1 min read

David Chamling Rai

May 28 '25

Building a Complete Blog API with Laravel API CRUD Generator

#laravel #api #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Aurelio Buarque

May 27 '25

Optimizing Struct Layout and Padding in Practice

#go #programming #devops #opensource

6 min read

Hritik Raj

May 28 '25

Building a Distributed Voting App with Docker: A Hands-On Guide

#devops #docker #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Wolfgang Rathgeb

May 27 '25

Self-Host Your Own URL Shortener with Zero Database Setup

#svelte #docker #sqlite #opensource

2 min read

Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed

Jun 11 '25

Locusthub Platform

#machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Mayowa Obisesan

May 28 '25

Microsoft "Edit" vs Vim: Is Vim dethroned?

#microsoft #rust #opensource

5 min read

May 7 '25

Empowering Financial Literacy through Open Source Innovation

#opensource #financialliteracy #financialinclusion

8 min read

Denis

Jun 11 '25

I Made a Free Alternative to CleanMyMac in 200 Lines of Python

#showdev #python #macos #opensource

1 min read

May 28 '25

Mitt, a tiny 200b functional event emitter.

#mitt #nuqs #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Joshua

Jun 11 '25

My first Open Source contribution

#opensource #documentation #docusaurus #hugo

4 min read

May 7 '25

If we haven't met yet, I am Aditya Bhattad—and I am here to build!

#webdev #opensource #blockchain #ai

5 min read

Nomadev

May 23 '25

So I Hooked My AI Agent Up with Notion. Here's What Happened.

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

May 25 '25

A2A and MCP Combined Implementation

#a2a #mcp #llm #opensource

8 min read

May 27 '25

My DualBoot Experience How I Broke My Laptop

#opensource #learning #beginners #linux

2 min read

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