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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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Sharif

Dec 21 '24

Revolutionize Your Flutter Apps with These Top Cross-Platform CMS Solutions

#flutter #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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Jasmine Mae for Fermyon

Jan 24 '25

Spin Joins CNCF Sandbox: Strengthening Adoption and Benefits for Organizations and Developers

#kubernetes #spinkube #opensource

3 min read

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Muhammad Aqib Bin Azam

Jan 24 '25

Building a Simple and Efficient Language Translator for Your Projects

#opensource #translation #javascript #webdev

4 min read

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Pizofreude

Jan 24 '25

Notes on Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2025 - Launch Stream

#dataengineering #dezoomcamp #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Judy

Jan 24 '25

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Jan 24 '25

__useInternal() in Grida codebase.

#javascript #opensource #figma #nextjs

3 min read

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Jan 23 '25

Seeking Support for Something Useful

#opensource #sponsor #webdev #programming

2 min read

hervé ishimwe for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 24 '25

Best Open-Source AI Model: Experimenting With Phi-4 and Ollama in PostgreSQL

#ai #opensource #postgres #testing

8 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 23 '25

Kick Off Stream. Wrapped Up… Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon.

#opensource #ai #hackathon #programming

2 min read

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VISDOM 04

Jan 23 '25

DeepSeek-R1 vs. OpenAI o1: Which AI Reasoning Model Dominates in 2025?

#ai #opensource #chatgpt #openai

5 min read

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Datamonk

Jan 23 '25

Data Orchestration Tool Analysis: Airflow, Dagster, Flyte

#dataengineering #tooling #python #opensource

7 min read

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rafrafek

Jan 23 '25

Building an Availability Checker for Refurbished Steam Decks in Europe

#python #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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Abhay

Dec 20 '24

My Experience at Build Bengaluru 2024

#opensource #rag #machinelearning #ai

2 min read

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Crypto.Andy (DEV)

Jan 23 '25

The future of open-source monetization: trends and predictions 💥

#opensource #webdev #programming #github

3 min read

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AceHack

Jan 23 '25

AceHack 4.0: Where Ideas Meet Collaboration

#discuss #career #opensource #learning

2 min read

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