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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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[Agentica] Can you make function? Then you're AI developer - TypeScript AI Function Calling Framework easier than any other

#typescript #programming #opensource #ai

9 min read

Carrie

Apr 1 '25

Get Started with Easiest WAF, SafeLine

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #security

3 min read

Linghua Jin for CocoIndex

May 1 '25

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graph For Documents with LLM

#showdev #opensource #programming #python

7 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 30 '25

Changing Group Ownership in Linux: Mastering the chgrp Command

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 30 '25

Understanding Your Identity in Linux Using id, whoami, and groups

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Torque for MechCloud Academy

Apr 30 '25

Qwen 3: Alibaba's Leap Forward in Open-Source AI

#llm #opensource #genai

4 min read

Apr 29 '25

I Built Dr. Headline – An Autonomous AI Agent Publishing Daily Factual Political News Briefings

#showdev #ai #opensource #civictech

2 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Apr 30 '25

How to Install Qwen 3 Locally?

#qwen3 #opensource #aimodels #ai

6 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 30 '25

Scripting Series – Part 2 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Astrodevil

Apr 26 '25

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#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

14 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Apr 29 '25

Kickstart Your Web Projects with ProXtyle: A Lightweight CSS Framework

#webdev #css #framework #opensource

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Jun 8 '25

My First Open Source Contribution

#webdev #programming #opensource #career

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Apr 18 '25

FastOpenAPI: A Reason to Believe in Open Source Community

#python #openapi #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Amna Anwar for PullFlow

Apr 29 '25

🤖 AI Agents in Open Source: Evolving the Contribution Model

#programming #ai #opensource #webdev

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xavki

Apr 29 '25

Kubernetes : what is PV, PVC & StorageClass ??

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #containers

2 min read

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