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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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Henry Odinakachukwu

Dec 25 '25

Correcting a Misleading Description of a Feature

#ux #writing #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Jan 29

Why I Built Custom AI Search Instead of Using ChatGPT (WordPress Plugin)

#wordpress #ai #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Jan 29

I Gave My AI Agent a Brain — Here's How Claude Cortex Changed Everything

#ai #claude #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Aayush

Dec 24 '25

Day 0: Launching OneTimeShare30 - My 30-Day Public Build Challenge

#showdev #github #opensource #devchallenge

5 min read

Dec 25 '25

Most Developers Don’t Need a UI Library — They Need Better Components

#webdev #tailwindcss #opensource #vue

1 min read

Dec 25 '25

GLM-4.7 Now on SiliconFlow: Advanced Coding, Reasoning & Tool Use Capabilities

#glm #siliconflow #coding #opensource

3 min read

孫一青

Dec 25 '25

ShiMo Protocol: A new logic-gate framework for human mental processing.

#productivity #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Jan 8

Optimizing and Running Neural Networks on React Native: A Grass Case Study

#programming #ai #reactnative #opensource

23 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 24 '25

Day 32 of improving my Data Science skills

#ai #productivity #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Dec 29 '25

VeritasChain Completes VCP v1.0 Proof of Concept

#opensource #blockchain #python #fintech

5 min read

Dec 24 '25

Top 10 noteworthy Java errors in 2025

#java #programming #opensource

16 min read

Ui-Forest

Dec 24 '25

SpillTea

#webdev #opensource #softwaredevelopment #community

2 min read

Marycynthia Ihemebiwo

Dec 25 '25

Adding a Missing Step to the Devnet Walkthrough

#beginners #documentation #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Dec 25 '25

A Simple Browser-Based Image to GIF Tool for Quick Visual Content

#webdev #opensource #nocode #productivity

2 min read

NocoBase

Dec 25 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

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