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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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Mar 5 '25

Exploring the Future of Blockchain Innovation with Arbitrum

#arbitrum #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

Mar 5 '25

NFT Controversies: A Deep Dive into Digital Ownership and Open Source Ethics

#nft #donaldtrump #opensource

4 min read

Mar 5 '25

Exploring NFTs on Arbitrum: A New Paradigm in Digital Ownership

#nft #arbitrum #opensource

4 min read

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Anshi

Apr 8 '25

🚀 Utilizing Docker with Ollama for Hosting DeepSeek R1-8B: Step-by-Step Instructions for Developers

#docker #opensource #deepseek #llm

4 min read

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Bonnie for CopilotKit

Mar 27 '25

How To Build Full-Stack AI Agents 🚀 (CrewAI + CopilotKit)

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

28 min read

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Yvonne

Apr 8 '25

Attention to Detail in Linux Commands

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

3 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 5 '25

Elon Musk’s Open Source Revolution in the NFT Landscape

#elonmusk #nft #opensource

3 min read

Mar 5 '25

Elon Musk and the Open Source Revolution: Pioneering a New Era of Innovation

#elonmusk #opensource #innovation

4 min read

Mar 5 '25

Microsoft's Journey into Open Source: A Transformational Tale

#microsoft #opensource #developercommunity

4 min read

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Nathan Tarbert for CopilotKit

Mar 28 '25

Build Full-Stack AI Agents with Custom React Components (CopilotKit + CrewAI)

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

1 min read

gezilinll

Mar 5 '25

I have implemented a GPU version of Pica which is high quailty image resizer

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 6 '25

Embracing Open Source in a Changing Political Landscape

#opensource #trumppresidency #technologyinnovation

4 min read

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Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 8 '25

Tuning Edge Animations in Reactflow for Optimal Performance

#reactflow #liamerd #erd #opensource

5 min read

Apr 8 '25

CLI tool in Nue.Js source code.

#react #opensource #nuejs #cli

5 min read

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Apr 7 '25

Nice open-source UI Tool to interact with kubernetes clusters

#cluster #kubernetes #k8s #opensource

3 min read

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