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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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Astrodevil

Jan 25

Snowflake vs. Databricks: Building Your Data Stack with Kestra🚀🌩️🧑‍💻

#cloud #opensource #devops #programming

8 min read

Jan 26

Pulumi Wasm/Rust devlog #5

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 26

Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#beginners #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

dilveteam

Jan 25

I’m building a community-driven list of Awesome European Tech 🇪🇺

#webdev #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Prathamesh Devadiga

Jan 26

DeepSeek-R1 : internals made easy 🐋

#deeplearning #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Gabriel A. Micheal

Jan 25

🔥Announcing Auto-I8LN: Simplify Flutter Internationalization & Localization

#flutter #dart #localization #opensource

1 min read

Jan 26

The Last Template Before AGI

#fastapi #microservices #opensource #ai

2 min read

Alberto Robertson

Jan 26

Running SQL on files with the esProc is very convenient, on par with duckDB

#opensource #programming #esproc #duckdb

3 min read

Judy

Jan 26

Something Could Double the Development Efficiency of Java Programmers

#java #programming #opensource #esproc

6 min read

Jan 25

Introducing PrintLayout: A Flexible Directory Printer with More Features Than GNU Tree

#programming #go #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Jan 24

Tech Founders & Leaders: Join Temporal's Lunch & Learn at Sequoia Capital NYC!

#discuss #opensource #programming #devops

1 min read

Jan 25

Right to be Forgotten and Open Source

#opensource #privacy #pidgin

5 min read

TheoForger

Jan 24

Sprint 1 - So Far so Good

#opensource #rust #beginners

4 min read

Jasmine Mae for Fermyon

Jan 24

Spin Joins CNCF Sandbox: Strengthening Adoption and Benefits for Organizations and Developers

#kubernetes #spinkube #opensource

3 min read

Muhammad Aqib Bin Azam

Jan 24

Building a Simple and Efficient Language Translator for Your Projects

#opensource #translation #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Ourai L. for OpenBuild

Jan 24

One-month Summary of the Open Source of OpenBuild Official Website

#openbuild #opensource #webdev #frontend

4 min read

Jan 24

__useInternal() in Grida codebase.

#javascript #opensource #figma #nextjs

3 min read

Eminence Technology

Jan 24

What are blockchain solutions and how do they work?

#blockchain #opensource #ai #beginners

3 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 23

Kick Off Stream. Wrapped Up… Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon.

#opensource #ai #hackathon #programming

2 min read

VISDOM 04

Jan 23

DeepSeek-R1 vs. OpenAI o1: Which AI Reasoning Model Dominates in 2025?

#ai #opensource #chatgpt #openai

5 min read

AceHack

Jan 23

AceHack 4.0: Where Ideas Meet Collaboration

#discuss #career #opensource #learning

2 min read

Jan 23

toolbar_value_to_cursormode function in Grida codebase

#opensource #nextjs #figma #toolbar

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 23

OSD700: Results of Sprint #1

#opensource

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 23

OSD700: How LLMs and Messengers Handling Attachments UI

#opensource

6 min read

Samuel Arogbonlo

Jan 23

Dynamic HTTP Server Configuration in Go with gorealconf

#go #http #opensource #programming

2 min read

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