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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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Mike Lane

Jan 21

dioxide v1.1.2: Multi-Binding for Plugin Systems

#python #dependencyinjection #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Anthony

Jan 23

A Lightning-Fast ngrok Alternative in Go

#go #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Feb 8

Death by Yes

#discuss #linux #security #opensource

5 min read

Jan 25

Linux for Data Engineers: From Terminal to Text Editing

#linux #dataengineering #opensource

16 min read

zo Aoo

Feb 3

40GB of Bot Traffic Later: I'm Open Sourcing 8,000+ n8n Workflows 🚀

#opensource #webdev #automation

3 min read

ihsan oral

Jan 21

Özgürlüğün Binbir Yüzü: Linux Dağıtımlarını Anlamak

#beginners #learning #linux #opensource

8 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Jan 19

Building an Engine to See Programming Differently

#kitwork #programming #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Sathya Prakash MC

Jan 20

Building an AI-Enhanced API Validator: A Weekend Developer's Journey

#openapi #api #ai #opensource

9 min read

Coroot

Jan 20

How to make GPUs on Kubernetes Observable

#kubernetes #ai #devops #opensource

5 min read

jelly cri

Jan 20

I built a C++ tool to clean development junk files on Windows

#showdev #opensource #cpp #github

2 min read

Jan 21

Stop Taking the Wrong Pills: Building a Vision Pro AR Med-Agent with Gemini 1.5 Pro

#ai #tutorial #python #opensource

3 min read

Asoseil

Jan 20

From chaos to signal: Taming high-frequency OS events

#go #productivity #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jan 20

How I Merged a PR in VS Code & My Open Source Roadmap for GSoC 2026

#opensource #gsoc2026 #vscode #career

2 min read

Jan 20

I Built an AI Debugging Assistant Because I Was Tired of Midnight Bug Hunts

#showdev #opensource #ai #python

4 min read

Tolu

Feb 10

The "Not Invented Here" Trap (Now Turbocharged by AI)

#ai #opensource #productivity #softwareengineering

4 min read

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