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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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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 14 '25

Introducing JWT Signing Keys

#webdev #programming #opensource #database

5 min read

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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 14 '25

Supabase UI: Platform Kit

#webdev #programming #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Cover image for Introducing RisingWave Console: Streamlined Management and Observability for Your RisingWave Clusters

RisingWave Labs

Jun 26 '25

Introducing RisingWave Console: Streamlined Management and Observability for Your RisingWave Clusters

#news #productivity #rust #opensource

6 min read

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Neo Meng

Jun 12 '25

A new OpenSource java decompiler

#c #java #decompiler #opensource

1 min read

DASWU

Jun 12 '25

NFS to JuiceFS: Building a Scalable Storage Platform for LLM Training & Inference

#opensource

9 min read

Chen Debra

Jul 16 '25

What do you think about adding a SQL Copilot Chat Assistant to DolphinScheduler?

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #githubcopilot #ai

2 min read

Cover image for Run a Raspberry Pi server at home in minutes with Tunnelmole - No complex network setup required

Jul 14 '25

Run a Raspberry Pi server at home in minutes with Tunnelmole - No complex network setup required

#server #service #opensource #javascript

8 min read

Chen Debra

Jul 16 '25

Use DolphinScheduler to schedule Spark jobs

#apachedolphinscheduler #spark #opensource #programming

6 min read

Cover image for 🔥 De‑constructing Cognition and Why LLMs Can’t Replicate It

marcosomma

Jul 16 '25

🔥 De‑constructing Cognition and Why LLMs Can’t Replicate It

#ai #machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource

4 min read

Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 16 '25

Infoscava: Acknowledging Antivirus Flags

#infoscava #opensource #falsepositive #cybersecurity

1 min read

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Jul 16 '25

Remotion vs Twick vs CE.SDK: Best React SDKs for AI‑Powered Video Editors

#opensource #videoeditor #twick #ai

3 min read

Cover image for 🌟 EvoAgentX's First Community Call: A Great Milestone Achieved! 🌟

EvoAgentX

Jun 12 '25

🌟 EvoAgentX's First Community Call: A Great Milestone Achieved! 🌟

#programming #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 15 '25

Open Source Collaboration Report: What 250+ Projects Reveal

#opensource #github #programming #softwaredevelopment

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jun 12 '25

How to Seamlessly Integrate SeaTunnel MySQL-CDC with Databend: Formats Explained & Best Practices

#programming #apacheseatunnel #opensource #mysql

10 min read

Jun 12 '25

📚 Did you know that the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS) rebuilt their entire online encyclopedia using XWiki?

#news #productivity #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

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