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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.

submission guidelines

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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Fossa Technology

Jul 21 '25

Build Better UX: Free QR Code Generator for Developers, Designers & Makers

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #productivity

1 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Jul 21 '25

How Generative Models Misclassify Business Transactions, and Why It Is a Structural, Not Semantic, Problem

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

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Abishek

Aug 24 '25

FOSS United Chennai Meetup

#opensource #exploring #linux

4 min read

Aug 4 '25

🛡️ UHT-Framework: A Modern Hacking Toolkit for Ethical Hackers & Pentesters

#opensource #cybersecurity #linux #termux

2 min read

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Yatharth Sanghavi

Aug 24 '25

How to Build a Telegram Movie Bot with Python: Complete Guide to Moviezinfo Bot Development 🎬

#telegram #python #opensource #api

8 min read

Jul 21 '25

Scaling Without Limits: Auto-Sharding for the AI-Driven Future

#web3 #ai #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

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Joshua Dimaunahan

Jul 21 '25

How I Made GitHub Open Source PRs Without Login in My VSCode Theme

#github #opensource #programming #javascript

1 min read

LaTerral Williams

Aug 13 '25

🚀How to Set Up a RHEL 9 VM in AWS EC2 and Connect with PuTTY (Beginner-Friendly Guide)

#linux #cloudwhistler #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Trix Cyrus

Aug 24 '25

Linux From Zero Part - 1🐧 What is Linux? A Simple Guide for Beginners

#linux #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

ByteKnight

Jul 21 '25

IPFS

#ipfs #decentralized #opensource

1 min read

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Aug 13 '25

From Zero to Contributor: My First Year in Open Source as a Junior Dev

#github #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

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Sep 10 '25

Why I built Wuchale: Protobuf-like i18n from plain code

#i18n #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Calum

Jul 21 '25

Advanced PDF Optimization Techniques - 1753087

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jul 20 '25

GitPilot

#git #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jul 20 '25

Launching ANCP — Secure Login for AI Agents Without VPN or OAuth

#ai #security #authentication #opensource

2 min read

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