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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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Pavan Somwanshi

May 30

Stop Wasting 80% of Your Time Searching for Open Source Issues

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #github

1 min read

Deb Singha

May 30

Why I Built Pluto: The Internal Email Validation Engine Behind Keplars

#architecture #go #productivity #opensource

5 min read

May 31

I Built CodeSight – A Desktop App for Visualizing Codebase Dependencies

#programming #opensource #rust #react

1 min read

cpengc1984

Jun 13

8 open-source low-code platforms worth a star in 2026 — picked by what you actually need

#opensource #lowcode #devtools #productivity

2 min read

pipo_

May 30

From Blind Startup to Global Relocalization: Building a ROS 2 3D LiDAR Navigation System

#showdev #architecture #github #opensource

10 min read

Kuldipsinh Parmar

May 30

I Built a VS Code Extension to Track My Coding Time — And Kept Your Data 100% Local

#vscode #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

zk0x /// ℹ️

May 30

Membangun AI Agent untuk Mendapatkan Penghasilan dari Open Source — Sebuah Pengalaman Nyata

#ai #opensource #indonesia #money

6 min read

May 31

The Art of Package Publishing: Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining Popular Open-Source Libraries

#packagepublishing #opensource #bestpractices #librarymaintenance

3 min read

May 30

Building Modern Web Services in C with Papago

#c #webdev #opensource #systems

5 min read

May 30

Every tutorial tells you to add .env to .gitignore. That's not enough.

#go #security #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Vinicius Andrade

May 30

BAIXAR VÍDEO DO YOUTUBE

#showdev #opensource #python #sideprojects

1 min read

May 30

Apache Tomcat End of Life: Tomcat 9 is EOL — Migration Guide to Tomcat 10/11

#java #security #devops #opensource

3 min read

kalaiyarasi janakiraman

May 30

SELENIUM

#automation #opensource #testing #webdev

2 min read

Jun 3

Recursive Loops, Retry Storms, and the Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents

#analytics #softwareengineering #systems #opensource

3 min read

Luis Iñesta Gelabert

Jun 3

What I underestimated about open-source: getting users after the project already works

#discuss #opensource

3 min read

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