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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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Jan 28 '25

How good is DeepSeek?

#ai #chatgpt #deepseek #opensource

3 min read

Feb 11 '25

Ensuring Financial Health in Open Source Projects: A Key to Sustainability

#monetizeopensource #opensource #financialsustainability #communitycontributions

2 min read

Feb 11 '25

Crowdsourced Funding: A Lifeline for Open-Source Software

#monetizeopensource #crowdsourcedfunding #opensource #crowdfundingplatforms

2 min read

Luis Fernando De Pombo for backmesh

Mar 3 '25

Quickly compare cost and results of different LLMs on the same prompt

#discuss #deepseek #ai #opensource

1 min read

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Sujith S for Zackriya Solutions

Mar 3 '25

Meetily: The Best Free & Open Source, Self-Hosted AI Meeting Note Taker – A Granola Alternative for Windows

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

TheoForger

Feb 20 '25

Sprint 3 - Dependencies Galore

#opensource #webdev #beginners

4 min read

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Sayed Ali Alkamel

Mar 3 '25

Wan 2.1: The AI Video Revolution That's Out of This World (But Still Runs on Your Computer)

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #opensource

7 min read

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Judith-Data-Processing-Hacks

Mar 3 '25

Align the existing data to the corresponding position and fill in any missing data with 0 — From SQL to SPL #6

#sql #opensource #mysql #esprocspl

2 min read

Zhang Wei

Feb 20 '25

Sustaining the Backbone of Technology: Open Source Funding Platforms

#opensource #fundingplatforms #softwaresustainability

2 min read

Judy

Mar 3 '25

Track Production Operations Outcome Progression with Conditional NULLs :SQL VS SPL

#sql #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

Mar 3 '25

Build an offscreen DOM tree using this method.

#opensource #javascript #typescript #reactscan

3 min read

Feb 20 '25

Unlocking the Potential: Open Source Revenue Generation

#blockchain #opensource #revenuemodels #softwaremonetization

2 min read

Feb 20 '25

Understanding Financial Growth in Open Source Projects

#monetizeopensource #opensource #financialgrowth #revenuestreams

2 min read

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Nathan Tarbert for CopilotKit

Feb 26 '25

How to Build a Full Stack Agentic Researcher in 5 Minutes ⚡️⚡️

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Mar 1 '25

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#programming #webdev #opensource #bestofdev

1 min read

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