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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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Dec 21

How I Stopped Mixing Personal and Work GitHub Accounts

#github #automation #security #opensource

2 min read

Dec 21

BookHunter — Open-Source CLI Tool for Downloading and Managing eBooks

#cli #opensource #books #automation

2 min read

Florian

Dec 21

Openinary: The Self-Hosted Cloudinary Alternative Nobody Built Before

#opensource #selfhosted #devops #docker

2 min read

Dec 21

Monetizing Open Source Software Without Selling Out: PPI Deep Dive

#programming #opensource #webmonetization #software

6 min read

Dec 21

Carific.ai: Building a Flicker-Free PDF Viewer with React - The Dual-Document Pattern

#react #nextjs #pdf #opensource

9 min read

Dec 21

Digler — Open-Source Disk Forensics and File Recovery Tool

#devops #web #opensource #cli

2 min read

Dec 21

File Browser — Open-Source Web File Manager You Can Self-Host

#devops #web #opensource #security

2 min read

Dec 21

Dives into Kubernetes contribution in Week 50, 2025

#kubernetes #opensource #tutorial #beginners

10 min read

Tomer Ben David

Dec 21

Shipping a Professional Blog with One Line of Java

#springboot #java #opensource #sass

3 min read

Moin Malek

Dec 21

From a Reel Comment to Open Source: Introducing ClipMotion

#showdev #tooling #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Suhaib Bin Younis

Dec 21

I Built a VS Code Extension That Turns GitHub Copilot Into a Full OpenAI-Compatible API

#ai #opensource #vscode #openai

3 min read

Vitor Veiga Vasconcelos Neto

Dec 21

I’m building an open-source visual layer on top of GitHub

#showdev #tooling #github #opensource

2 min read

Puneet-Kumar2010

Dec 21

Meet Xenoglaux-AI: The Next-Gen Text Generator AI 🦉✨

#discuss #ai #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Alexander Alten

Dec 21

Stateless Kafka-compatible brokers backed by object storage, k8s native

#go #kubernetes #opensource #kafka

1 min read

Clifford Otieno

Dec 20

The Open Source Myth: Why "Free" Doesn't Always Mean Free

#discuss #management #opensource

7 min read

perber

Dec 21

Leafwiki v0.5.2 - is out - dark mode and Markdown improvements

#opensource #markdown #documentation #devtools

2 min read

Dec 20

Show DEV: Render Markdown in Leptos 0.8 with zero configuration 🦀

#showdev #rust #leptos #opensource

1 min read

Tsiry Sandratraina

Dec 21

Bringing Rockbox's Legendary Audio Engine to the Modern Desktop: A Native Port for Linux and macOS

#rust #opensource #swift #zig

2 min read

Damian

Dec 20

The Missing Step in RAG: Why Your Vector DB is Bloated (and how to fix it locally)

#dataengineering #rag #python #opensource

3 min read

Livrädo Sandoval

Dec 20

PythonICO: Beautiful, Live PyPI Badges for Your Python Projects 🐍

#python #opensource #pypi #devtools

3 min read

Matias Palomino

Dec 20

Crea tu propia Agencia de Marketing AI Local: Local, Privada y Open Source

#ai #python #opensource #diciembredeagentes

4 min read

Deep Shah

Dec 21

I Built a TOON Playground: Save 40% on LLM Tokens

#ai #webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Pillippa Ignacia Pérez Pons

Dec 20

Day 00 - Prelude

#durableobjects #tutorial #opensource #distributedsystems

7 min read

Dec 20

Building RedirectWise: A Practical Chrome Extension for Redirect Analysis

#webdev #extensions #redirectwise #opensource

3 min read

Soufyan

Dec 21

🎉 Announcing mkarchi v0.1.6 - Now Ready to Use! 🚀

#chatgpt #python #mkarchi #opensource

2 min read

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