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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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Cover image for Reflex: The Python Way to Build Full-Stack Web Apps

Apr 2 '25

Reflex: The Python Way to Build Full-Stack Web Apps

#webdev #python #programming #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2 '25

Setting Up Llama 3.2 Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI: A Complete Guide

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Notes on Llama 4: The Hits, the Misses, and the Disasters

Sunil Kumar Dash for Composio

Apr 11 '25

Notes on Llama 4: The Hits, the Misses, and the Disasters

#ai #beginners #productivity #opensource

11 min read

Apr 1 '25

Porting is-odd npm to OCaml using remelange compiler

#javascript #ocaml #npm #opensource

2 min read

Vasudevan Tamilarasan

Apr 1 '25

My starting point for Linux

#linux #opensource #developer #debian

3 min read

Cover image for 🎨 svggles – Make Interactive SVG Illustrations in React (with 1 Line)

Apr 1 '25

🎨 svggles – Make Interactive SVG Illustrations in React (with 1 Line)

#webdev #react #opensource #design

1 min read

Cover image for DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation from scratch

Feb 26 '25

DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation from scratch

#llm #ai #chatgpt #opensource

4 min read

Remi Kristelijn

Feb 26 '25

Conventional Messaging

#discuss #devdiscuss #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Introduction to Key-Value Stores

Apr 1 '25

Introduction to Key-Value Stores

#programming #go #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Prakash Chandra Muduli

Apr 1 '25

Introducing Humbble – The Open-Source Alternative to Bumble!

#opensource #reactnative #typescript #mobile

2 min read

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Vladislav Guzey

Apr 1 '25

Building with Gemma 3: A Developer's Guide to Google's AI Innovation

#ai #google #opensource #tooling

7 min read

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Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Apr 1 '25

Integrating a Custom Provider into the ONLYOFFICE AI Plugin

#onlyoffice #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 1 '25

DevOps Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Best Open-Source DevOps Projects to Contribute in 2025

#devops #opensource #devopscommunity #beginners

3 min read

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Anna Zilfugharyan

Mar 21 '25

10 Best Customer Service Chatbots for Your Business in 2025

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #automation

8 min read

Cover image for Introducing RatingAPI - Scalable, Secure & Open Source!

Jean-Gaël

Apr 1 '25

Introducing RatingAPI - Scalable, Secure & Open Source!

#fastapi #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

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