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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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Water Run

Sep 21

Bat-KV: Lightweight Key-Value Store for Windows Batch

#database #programming #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Farzan Afringan

Sep 21

Why Linux Kernel is the Beating Heart of Technology

#linux #kernel #opensource #technology

3 min read

Sep 21

Froggit New Version v0.5.0

#opensource #go #git #webdev

1 min read

Lakshan Madushanka

Sep 21

Introduction to TrueReviewer: A Product Review Package for Laravel 🚀

#laravel #vue #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Garima Shrivastava

Sep 21

CMD Linux-Like Toolkit (Batch + PowerShell)

#cli #bash #opensource #linux

1 min read

Sep 21

The Hijacked Promise of Smart Manufacturing

#discuss #opensource #learning #news

6 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 21

Day 13 of 90 day python series....

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

GG-HRN

Sep 21

First look to store manager

#webdev #programming #pwa #opensource

1 min read

Federico Moretti

Sep 21

How to Get The GIMP Working With macOS Tahoe (and What Happened)

#news #tutorial #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Kushagra Srivastava

Sep 21

My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 3

#programming #opensource #freebsd #kernel

11 min read

GG-HRN

Sep 21

Hello Community! A Self-Taught Developer and Volunteer Here to Connect

#webdev #programming #pwa #opensource

1 min read

Kachi

Sep 20

Apache Kafka & Amazon MSK: The Beating Heart of Real-Time Data

#dataengineering #architecture #opensource #aws

4 min read

Sep 20

Contribute to AlgoRise – Hacktoberfest 2025!

#opensource #typescript #beginners #nextjs

1 min read

KTSHACX

Sep 20

🚀 Building Zeno – My Lightweight, Plugin-First Markdown Blog Framework

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Navigating RAG System Architecture: Trade-offs and Best Practices for Scalable, Reliable AI Applications

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

5 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

How to Rank at Scale: Engineering Search Systems for Millions of Users

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

Sep 20

Create a C# Windows Desktop App in 9 Lines — No Visual Studio Needed

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #xamarinforms

2 min read

Sep 20

OSD 600 - Lab 2

#cli #opensource #beginners #learning

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Building Safe AI: Understanding Agent Guardrails and the Power of Prompt Engineering

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Unlocking AI Agents: Architecture, Workflows, and Pitfalls for Technical Leaders

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

5 min read

Pocket Portfolio

Sep 20

How our price fallbacks work (equities, FX, crypto) — resilient client edge design

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Test article on AI: Deep Dive Into Modern Testing Methodologies, Benchmarks, and System Design

#ai #machinelearning #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Test article on AI: The Core Building Blocks, Trade-offs, and Real-World Impact

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

5 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Navigating Core Trade-offs for Scalable, Reliable AI Systems

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

5 min read

Sep 20

Training a Nematode with Quantum Reinforcement Learning

#reinforcementlearning #quantumcomputing #machinelearning #opensource

8 min read

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