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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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Rashid Yousufzai

Mar 22

The Open-Source AI Sidekick You Didn’t Know You Needed: RAGFlow 🚀

#ai #opensource #openai #python

2 min read

Mar 22

Opensource Pose Detection Demo

#opensource #posedetector #nextjs

3 min read

Joe Curlee

Mar 22

AI Runner v3.3 is now under Apache 2.0

#ai #python #opensource

1 min read

Mar 22

MERN Stack Deployment Issue🛠

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Shpend Rrustemi

Mar 22

React Clean Architecture

#react #webdev #cleanarchitecture #opensource

1 min read

DevOps VN

Mar 22

The Open-Source On-Call Integration

#aws #devops #sre #opensource

5 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Mar 22

Remote Work Challenges for Developers & How to Overcome Them

#devops #opensource #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Neurolov

Mar 22

Hey, Devs! 👋 Let’s Talk AI – Neurolov AMA Starts Now!

#news #opensource #beginners #devchallenge

1 min read

Vladimir Grichina

Mar 22

Vibe Coding a Web Pong Game with poorcoder and Grok

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Sarthak Malhotra

Mar 21

1000 stars on GitHub feels like a Million likes on any other platform

#github #opensource #programming #ai

1 min read

sgale

Mar 21

Dragon Dex available! An app for the community

#android #opensource #kotlin #beginners

1 min read

Mar 21

Slash your cost by 90% with Apache Doris Compute-Storage Decoupled Mode

#database #opensource #cloudcomputing #dataengineering

9 min read

Shpend Rrustemi

Mar 21

React Clean Architecture

#react #architecture #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Станислав Тимофеев

Mar 21

How I Built My Own VPN Server in 5 Simple Steps (And Helped My Friends Get Around Restrictions)

#vpn #privacy #linux #opensource

1 min read

Dev Sk

Mar 21

How Netflix Stores 140 Million Hours of Viewing Data Per Day PART 2

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

2 min read

GitNation

Mar 21

JSNation US - 2nd Edition🌆

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

Anna Zilfugharyan

Mar 21

10 Best Customer Service Chatbots for Your Business in 2025

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #automation

8 min read

Mar 21

Beginner’s Guide to Contributing to GitHub Open Source Projects

#opensource #beginners #github #codenewbie

12 min read

Mar 21

warnOnce package in Refine source code.

#opensource #javascript #node #warnonce

3 min read

mksunny1

Mar 22

Why I Built Marksafe: A Safer, More Flexible Alternative to Markdown

#discuss #javascript #opensource

2 min read

silambarasan rajendran

Mar 21

Day-02: Open Source Community links

#opensource #linux #meeting #programming

1 min read

Mar 21

Web3 Wallets Suck (And Here's How We’re Fixing It with RadhaSphere Wallet)

#web3 #opensource #nextjs #design

1 min read

NocoBase

Mar 21

Top 4 Open Source Products to Help You Avoid Hidden Costs in Low-Code Platforms

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #developer

7 min read

Duplessis van Aswegen

Mar 22

Help! It’s Another TypeScript Metadata Registry! (But this one's useful)

#typescript #metadata #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Mar 22

GoAvatar: Generate Unique Identicons in Go with Ease

#go #programming #opensource #development

2 min read

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