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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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Aviral Srivastava

Nov 2 '25

Docker Registry (Harbor) and Private Repositories

#docker #devops #opensource #security

5 min read

DASWU

Oct 10 '25

Zelos Tech Manages Hundreds of Millions of Files for Autonomous Driving with JuiceFS

#ai #opensource

7 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Oct 10 '25

From Hours to Minutes: How Dmall Cuts Data Integration Costs to 1/3 with Apache SeaTunnel?

#programming #apacheseatunnel #datascience #opensource

8 min read

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NocoBase

Oct 10 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

FERNANDO JOSEPH GBEDEGBE GBEYETIN

Oct 11 '25

Collaborative Odoo 19 Community Development – Custom Modules & Benin Standardized Invoicing

#postgres #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

c1oudM0

Oct 9 '25

Obfuscating Solana Transaction Trails with Custom Entropy (Rust)

#rust #solana #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Alex Zhong

Oct 10 '25

Git Stars: Discover & Track Trending Open Source Projects on GitHub

#opensource #github #developers

1 min read

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Oct 14 '25

Stop Building AI Backends — Meet the Open-Source Vezlo AI Assistant Server

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

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Prathmesh barot

Oct 21 '25

Building Rynex: A 175KB TypeScript Framework Without Virtual DOM

#typescript #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Kyle Homen

Oct 10 '25

Hacktoberfest Week 1

#hacktoberfest #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

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aelassas

Nov 12 '25

Servy: Turn Any App into a Native Windows Service

#discuss #opensource #automation #devops

17 min read

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NocoBase

Nov 14 '25

7 Best Self-Hosted AI Tools for Building Business Apps

#opensource #nocode #selfhosted #ai

8 min read

Oct 11 '25

Nicholas Renotte: I Spent 6 Weeks using Reinforcement Learning to Beat This GoDot Game

#ai #opensource #git

1 min read

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Ali Ghaedrahmat

Oct 9 '25

I built Clarion, an opensource AI Agent & Context Engineering software

#showdev #ai #opensource #tooling

3 min read

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Nov 13 '25

I Built 25 AI Tools for Python Devs—Here's What I Learned

#ai #devops #opensource #api

2 min read

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