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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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Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 26

Multimodal AI: The Future of Artificial Intelligence

#ai #multimodalai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 10

The problem with React and MUI

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 28

Understanding Permissions in Linux: A Deep Dive into chmod

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

NocoBase

Jun 10

6 Open-Source Firebase Alternatives for Self-Hosting and Data Control

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #tooling

11 min read

InterSystems Developer for InterSystems

Mar 25

SQLAchemy-iris with the latest version Python driver

#python #sql #programming #opensource

6 min read

Apr 27

Check Out These 5 GitHub Repositories Now 🤯

#github #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Apr 28

I vibe coded this simple sticky todo notes app

#javascript #webdev #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Carrie

Mar 25

Demystifying SafeLine WAF Performance

#beginners #opensource #waf #cybersecurity

2 min read

Apr 28

FileViewerModal component in Suna, an open source generalist AI agent.

#suna #ai #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Milkah S

Apr 28

Paid Open Source Internships for Students (Remote, 2025)

#beginners #career #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Varad J

Apr 28

How OpenAI Codex let me down — and why I built Codey, an open-source coding assistant

#opensource #python #tooling #cli

2 min read

Apr 28

🚀 Live Chat Support Starter Kit — Open Source!

#opensource #nextjs #socketio #webdev

1 min read

Mar 25

Day 3: Implementing the Visualizer Features

#opensource #programming #react #devjournal

3 min read

Mar 25

Automating Subscription Billing: The Smart Move for SaaS Growth

#devops #productivity #opensource #aws

3 min read

Okoye Ndidiamaka

Mar 25

The Power of Open Educational Resources (OER): How Free Knowledge is Transforming the World

#opensource #oer #selflearning #onlinecourses

2 min read

ronynn

Mar 29

Getting my app into IzzyOnDroid: Making It Fully Reproducible

#android #github #beginners #opensource

1 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 28

Is RisingWave the Next Apache Flink?

#discuss #productivity #opensource #datascience

6 min read

May 1

Redis Lost. Or did they?!

#cloud #devops #redis #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 28

Nerds Go to War: Why Linux and Red Hat Certified Heroes Matter

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

Artu

Apr 7

Introducing GitHotswap: Switch Git Profiles Like a Pro

#git #productivity #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Developer Harsh for Composio

Apr 21

MCP client - Step by Step Guide to Building from Scratch

#ai #opensource #python #deeplearning

12 min read

Anuj Ashok Potdar

Apr 27

Spring PetClinic Goes Global: Enhancing Accessibility with Multi-Language Support

#spring #java #opensource #i18n

3 min read

ARGHA DHAR

Mar 26

GitHub Pull Request Review Study

#opensource #security #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 3

Best Alpine.js Alternative

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

Adityavardhan Agrawal

Mar 24

An overview of rules based ingestion in DataBridge

#rag #ai #python #opensource

6 min read

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