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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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Apr 12 '25

Meet RedCoffee : A Python CLI to export SonarQube analysis as shareable PDF Reports

#python #devops #opensource #testing

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May 26 '25

QGIS Hub Plugin 0.4 – A Cleaner UI and New Resource Types

#qgis #opensource #geospatial #gis

2 min read

May 15 '25

EMPTY_OBJ in Inferno.Js source code.

#opensource #react #inferno #preact

3 min read

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Alex Enson

Apr 15 '25

10 Daily Linux Questions and Answers Series (part 4)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

May 14 '25

Day 3: Create, Read, Delete — Your First File Kung Fu in RHEL 9

#linux #opensource #beginners #cloudwhistler

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NocoBase

May 15 '25

Enterprise Low-Code Development? Power Apps vs NocoBase In-Depth Comparison

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #powerapps

18 min read

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 25 '25

I replaced Next.js for my application with this module 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

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Rohtash Sethi for NG DELHI

May 14 '25

We Use Angular: Discover the Companies Powering Their Products with Angular

#angular #opensource #community #frontend

3 min read

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Nick K

May 12 '25

Building an Open Source Alternative to Patreon in 100 days

#discuss #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

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How to ungoogle your Business: Google Drive Edition

#opensource #webdev #devops #docker

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OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 14 '25

Own Your System: Using the find Command for File Ownership, Backup & System Control

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

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CerbiStream – Bringing Governance to the Wild West of Logging

#dotnet #logging #governance #opensource

3 min read

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Anshuman Khanna

May 14 '25

The problem with Open Source, in 2025

#opensource #programming #learning #webdev

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LaTerral Williams

May 14 '25

🦾 Modify Like a Machine: Mastering `usermod` with The Terminator

#cloudwhistler #cloud #linux #opensource

6 min read

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May 28 '25

🌍 Help Build a Transparent Blockchain System for Public Projects | Open-Source Collaboration

#ethereum #blockchain #opensource #hardhat

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