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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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Scofield Idehen

Feb 21 '24

Reading and Writing Files in Python (Text Files & CSV)

#python #beginners #programming #opensource

5 min read

Prosper Otemuyiwa for novu

Feb 21 '24

Translate your App's Notification content to different languages using i18n.

#javascript #programming #opensource #notification

3 min read

Repro Dev

Feb 18 '24

Chocolatey: The Easiest Way to Install and Manage Windows Software

#automation #tutorial #codenewbie #opensource

14 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 15 '24

What do you use for a second brain?

#opensource #productivity

4 min read

Eduardo Messuti for StatusPal

Feb 20 '24

8 Best Free & Open Source Status Page Alternatives in 2025

#devops #opensource #incidentmanagement #statuspage

10 min read

Chuck Carpenter

Feb 20 '24

A Tale of Frameworks: Our Quirky Quest from Next.js to Redwood.js

#javascript #opensource

2 min read

Bap

Feb 16 '24

Alternatives to Auth0 we are most excited about in 2024

#opensource #github #productivity #devops

4 min read

Riza Farheen for orkes

Jan 22 '24

Announcing Initial Release of New Conductor OSS Repository

#microservices #orchestration #opensource #distributedsystems

3 min read

Nirant for Qdrant

Feb 19 '24

Sparse Vectors in Qdrant: Pure Vector-based Hybrid Search

#vectordatabase #ai #opensource #database

15 min read

Feb 19 '24

Magic is no longer Open Source

#lowcode #productivity #opensource #ai

2 min read

Ricardo Filipe dos Santos

Feb 20 '24

Boost Your Productivity with ntfy.sh: The Ultimate Notification Tool for Command-Line Users

#productivity #commandline #opensource #notifications

4 min read

Feb 20 '24

Doodle 0.10.0 can host React, supports WebAssembly and much more

#webdev #javascript #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

Feb 20 '24

Simplifying the Milvus Selection Process

#opensource #ai #rag #programming

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 19 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #189

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Emily

Feb 19 '24

My First Year in an AI Startup

#ai #startup #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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