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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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Feb 18 '25

Sustainable Funding for Open Source: A Path to Stability and Innovation

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #sustainablefunding #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Feb 18 '25

The Vital Role of Developer Community Support in Open Source

#monetizeopensource #opensource #developercommunity #mentorship

2 min read

Feb 18 '25

Supporting Open Source: The Importance of Developer Patronage

#blockchain #opensource #developerpatronage #softwaresustainability

2 min read

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Feb 22 '25

Master Your Technical Interview Prep with FaangPrepTracker

#programming #opensource #ai #frontend

4 min read

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Highlander

Feb 18 '25

League of Legends Client ported to OpenSilver

#opensilver #opensource #dotnet #ui

1 min read

Feb 17 '25

Execution Flows Programming Paradigm - Harvesting the Power of Nullary Functions

#python #opensource #executionflows #flowcompose

5 min read

PaulK6803

Mar 23 '25

FastFill – My First Open-Source Project! A Text Snippet Manager for Windows

#beginners #python #opensource #software

1 min read

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Mar 23 '25

FastMCP: Simplifying AI Context Management with the Model Context Protocol

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #datascience

4 min read

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Neurolov

Mar 3 '25

How AI Image Gen Works – A Deep Dive into Stable Diffusion

#news #opensource #blockchain #ai

1 min read

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Marc Anton Dahmen

Mar 23 '25

Automad CMS 2.0 Alpha

#webdev #cms #opensource #php

4 min read

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Mar 23 '25

Automate Emails with AI: Building an Email Agent in n8n

#ai #tutorial #opensource #learning

3 min read

Okerew

Mar 23 '25

Release 0.9 of osxiec

#docker #opensource #native #macos

1 min read

Feb 17 '25

Supporting the Builders: Open Source Developer Sponsorship

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #developersponsorship #financialsustainability

2 min read

Feb 17 '25

Open Source Funding Success Stories: A Path to Sustainable Innovation

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #fundingmodels #communitycollaboration

2 min read

Feb 17 '25

The Power of Sponsorship in Open Source Projects

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #sponsorship #sustainability

2 min read

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