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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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Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 5: Monitoring, Observability, and Health Checks

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Anuj Dubey

Aug 3 '25

🚀 Just Shipped: Client Portal for V1‑ERP

#buildinpublic #webdev #erp #opensource

1 min read

Alex

Sep 17 '25

JT-Trader: A Complete Overview of the Cryptocurrency Algorithmic Trading Platform

#webdev #opensource #typescript #programming

4 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination – Part 3: Fault Tolerance and Node Recovery

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3 '25

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 2: How Database-Backed Partitioning Works

#springbatch #java #cloudnative #opensource

2 min read

Sep 5 '25

Introducing Codepit: A Minimal Platform to Share Code Snippets

#nextjs #opensource #productivity #webdev

1 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Sep 5 '25

Project of the Week: Emotion-js

#discuss #javascript #opensource #react

3 min read

daniele pelleri

Sep 3 '25

I Open-Sourced My Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework (94% Lower API Costs)

#ai #opensource #webdev #openai

3 min read

Aug 2 '25

🚀 Stop Manually Setting Up Projects, Try create-launcher CLI

#npm #opensource #typescript #webdev

2 min read

beladevo

Sep 5 '25

Redirector OSINT - One-Command Redirect & Logging Tool

#osint #cybersecurity #opensource #python

1 min read

Sep 5 '25

Microsoft Just Open-Sourced the Original 6502 BASIC Interpreter

#vintage #computerhistory #opensource #assembly

3 min read

PARTHIB KUMAR DEB

Aug 3 '25

Linus revolutionizes ☀️

#programming #linux #ubuntu #opensource

6 min read

Judy

Sep 5 '25

Postage calculation --SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Philipp Krenn for Elastic

Sep 5 '25

Elasticsearch: 15 years of indexing it all, finding what matters

#elasticsearch #kibana #opensource

5 min read

Leo Song

Sep 4 '25

OneTerm: The Open-Source Bastion Host I Refactored in Three Months

#opensource #devops #aws #security

3 min read

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