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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 15 '25

# Neo4j Tutorial: Mastering Variable Length Relationships and Path Algorithms

#neo4j #opensource #graphql #nosql

10 min read

Apr 15 '25

# Neo4j Tutorial: Comprehensive Guide to Neo4j Indexing

#neo4j #graphql #nosql #opensource

8 min read

Apr 15 '25

🚀 From a Problem to a Project: My First Real-World Development Journey 🌍

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 14 '25

The Symphony of the AI System

#ai #aiops #opensource

3 min read

Alexander Galea

Mar 25 '25

Getting Started with Cline—The Best VS Code AI Plugin

#programming #ai #opensource #docker

7 min read

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Valery Zinchenko for denshya

Apr 14 '25

SSR with Full DOM Support

#webdev #opensource #frontend #javascript

6 min read

Mar 11 '25

Exploring the MIT License: Innovation, Impact, and Integrity

#mitlicense #opensource #innovation

4 min read

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Apr 14 '25

Linux in Action - File Structure Hierarchy and Its Role in Modern Business

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

6 min read

Mar 11 '25

Exploring BigchainDB: Revolutionizing Blockchain Databases with Open Source Innovation

#bigchaindb #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Mar 11 '25

Exploring the Sawtooth Python SDK: Open Source, Funding, and Community Impact

#blockchain #opensource #python

4 min read

Apr 14 '25

Linux Essentials: Taming Files & Directories Like a Terminal Boss

#cloudwhistler #devops #linux #opensource

3 min read

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Yvonne

Apr 14 '25

Bash Script to Back Up and EC2 Instance

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

5 min read

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Chielo Chiamaka

Apr 14 '25

Linux Group Management

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource

2 min read

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OpenxAI Network

Mar 25 '25

Federated Learning & Privacy-Preserving AI Researcher

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

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OpenxAI Network

Mar 25 '25

OpenxAI Internship Program for Decentralized AI

#discuss #ai #opensource #datascience

1 min read

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