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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.

submission guidelines

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 I Built an MCP Server for DevTo (100% Open Source)🎉

Arindam Majumder

Apr 28 '25

I Built an MCP Server for DevTo (100% Open Source)🎉

#mcp #devto #python #opensource

3 min read

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Alex Enson

Apr 25 '25

Special Permissions in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Apr 29 '25

🎬 The Sysadmin Show – Episode 9: “The Curious Case of the Special Bits”

#beginners #linux #opensource #cloudwhistler

3 min read

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Shreyash Srivastava

Apr 25 '25

My Experience Participating in KWoC

#opensource #kwoc #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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Bahador Raghibizadeh

May 29 '25

express-access: Elegant Role-Based Access Control for Express.js

#node #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Jun 12 '25

My First Post: I Built a Payment Template—Now Reality Check Me on KYC

#webdev #fintech #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Apr 25 '25

File structure in Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion

#opensource #react #docmost #filestructure

3 min read

Apr 25 '25

Deutsche Bank's Embrace of Open Source: Revolutionizing Financial Technology

#deutschebank #opensource #financialtechnology

8 min read

Genix

Jun 10 '25

My personal website

#discuss #opensource #career #programming

1 min read

Apr 25 '25

Exploring the Intersection of Cyberwarfare and Open Source License Compliance

#cyberwarfare #opensource #licensecompliance

8 min read

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NocoBase

Apr 25 '25

[Tutorial] Chapter 12: Meeting Rooms Booking: WorkFlows & SQL statements

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #learning

9 min read

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NocoBase

Apr 25 '25

[Tutorial] Chapter 11: Subtasks & Work Hours Calculation

#opensource #learning #lowcode #nocode

5 min read

May 29 '25

Single Sign-On with OpenAM and OpenIG: Practical Implementation Examples

#sso #security #opensource #webdev

4 min read

obiabo Immanuel

May 8 '25

I Got Laid Off Recently, So I'm Letting Go of the Project I Believed In the Most

#opensource #cryptocurrency #github

4 min read

May 18 '25

Unveiling GNU Free Documentation License 1.2: A Holistic Deep Dive into Open Source Documentation

#gnufreedocumentationlicense #opensource #documentationlicensing

6 min read

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