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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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#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

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f14XuanLv

Aug 21 '25

GitHub PR Stats - Visualization Tool for Creating Beautiful SVG Cards

#opensource #react #typescript #vercel

3 min read

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Jul 18 '25

JAN AI - We got our first issue from the user for this project!

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Jul 18 '25

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#discuss #ai #aiops #opensource

2 min read

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NocoBase

Aug 21 '25

10 Best Open-Source Tools to Build Internal Data Apps

#opensource #nocode #data #database

8 min read

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Jul 18 '25

Free Places to Post Your Early Product — And It Actually Worked

#ai #opensource #marketing #python

2 min read

Calum

Jul 18 '25

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#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jul 31 '25

AI-documentor: "automagic" wiki / docs for your web apps

#opensource #ai #typescript #npm

1 min read

Tim Gaul

Aug 21 '25

The Rise of Open AI Models: Privacy, Control, and a New Era

#ai #openai #openweights #opensource

7 min read

Calum

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#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

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Denis

Aug 9 '25

Creating our own package in php

#php #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

cz

Aug 21 '25

2025 Complete Guide: ByteDance Seed-OSS-36B Open Source LLM In-Depth Analysis

#bytedance #opensource

5 min read

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NocoBase

Jul 18 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

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vijaysheru

Jul 18 '25

How I’m Solving the Dark Side of Vibe Coding — Building DevPilot Core as a Solo Engineer

#ai #devtools #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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Noorsimar Singh

Jul 17 '25

Building a Production-Ready Apple Store Reviews Scraper with Python & Scrapy

#webscraping #python #opensource #api

7 min read

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