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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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Alexand

Apr 5 '25

Meet Exa: The Modern Replacement for 'ls' Every Linux User Needs

#webdev #linux #opensource #redhat

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 3 '25

Declarative Schemas for Simpler Database Management

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Apr 5 '25

Promoting Your GitHub Sponsors Profile: A Comprehensive Guide

#githubsponsors #opensource #communityengagement

8 min read

Mar 6 '25

Discovering Project Lombok: Simplifying Java Development Through Open Source Innovation

#java #opensource #lombok

3 min read

Apr 5 '25

Exploring Gitcoin Kudos: Strengthening the Open Source Community

#gitcoinkudos #nfts #opensource

8 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 5 '25

Real-Time As-Of Joins in Streaming Databases: How We Solved Out-of-Order Event Matching

#news #opensource #datascience #database

3 min read

Nicolas Fränkel

Apr 3 '25

Mutation Testing in Rust

#mutationtesting #rust #opensource

3 min read

Tania Chakraborty for goose

Apr 4 '25

MCP Explained for Non-Developers

#ai #opensource #mcp

4 min read

Apr 4 '25

What is tmpfs mounts?

#devops #docker #cloud #opensource

4 min read

lolo859

Apr 4 '25

A kernel with interpreted processes

#kernel #opensource #programming

5 min read

Apr 4 '25

Introducing Greening: Ship Beautiful Software, Fast

#showdev #python #opensource #automation

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 1 '25

Introducing the Supabase UI Library

#programming #react #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Unicorn Developer

Apr 4 '25

PowerShell: new features, same old bugs

#csharp #opensource #github

8 min read

Apr 3 '25

7 Top API Documentation Software Tools 2025 (With Reviews and Pricing)✨

#programming #webdev #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Apr 3 '25

DATA TYPES IN JAVA

#programming #beginners #java #opensource

3 min read

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