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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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Nick K

May 12 '25

Building an Open Source Alternative to Patreon in 100 days

#discuss #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 14 '25

Own Your System: Using the find Command for File Ownership, Backup & System Control

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

Anshuman Khanna

May 14 '25

The problem with Open Source, in 2025

#opensource #programming #learning #webdev

4 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 14 '25

🦾 Modify Like a Machine: Mastering `usermod` with The Terminator

#cloudwhistler #cloud #linux #opensource

6 min read

Sharon

May 14 '25

Fine-Tuning SSL Protocols and Ciphers in SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #webdev #opensource #waf

2 min read

Chielo Chiamaka

May 14 '25

find command

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

5 min read

May 13 '25

Funding in Open Source: A Conversation with Chad Whitacre

#opensource #opensourcefunding #devcommunity

4 min read

May 13 '25

Peersuite, a decentralized workspace

#opensource #webdev #javascript #community

1 min read

Raziel Rodrigues

May 13 '25

Neuron AI: O Framework PHP de Inteligência Artificial 🐘

#php #braziliandevs #ai #opensource

6 min read

Francesco Ciulla

May 13 '25

Should you join a community to learn Rust?

#rust #opensource #beginners #community

1 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 14 '25

Tired of Wasting Time Searching Files in Linux? Learn to Use the find Command Like an Engineer Who Gets Things Done

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

aktky

May 14 '25

Tired of GUI builders? I made a code-first alternative to Retool

#opensource #webdev #productivity #go

3 min read

Alissa V. for PullFlow

Jun 5 '25

How We Built collab.dev: Measuring What Really Matters in Open Source

#hackathon #webdev #programming #opensource

5 min read

May 12 '25

How to ungoogle your Business: Google Drive Edition

#opensource #webdev #devops #docker

3 min read

LaTerral Williams

May 13 '25

🔍"I Will Find You..." - Taken (Linux Edition)

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #cloud

4 min read

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