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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 Open Source for Non-Developers: Opportunities Beyond Code

Gurjeet Singh Virdee

Dec 27 '24

Open Source for Non-Developers: Opportunities Beyond Code

#opensource #beginners #learning #career

3 min read

Cover image for Automated Session Control with Bluetooth: An Insight into ble-lock-session

Nov 23 '24

Automated Session Control with Bluetooth: An Insight into ble-lock-session

#bluetooth #linux #python #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for My 2024 Wrapped: you can just make things

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Dec 27 '24

My 2024 Wrapped: you can just make things

#tutorial #ai #opensource #learning

3 min read

Cover image for 🚀A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Daytona with Android Projects ✨

Anurag Kanojiya

Dec 27 '24

🚀A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Daytona with Android Projects ✨

#docker #android #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for I built a library of code snippets for developers

Dec 27 '24

I built a library of code snippets for developers

#webdev #productivity #opensource #devjournal

4 min read

Dec 27 '24

Building a Simple Email-Open Tracking System for Your Gmail

#node #javascript #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Cover image for Leveraging Airbyte 🪼 and Motherduck 🦆 for Sentiment Analysis

Abhiraj Adhikary

Dec 27 '24

Leveraging Airbyte 🪼 and Motherduck 🦆 for Sentiment Analysis

#airbyte #motherduck #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Trix Cyrus

Dec 26 '24

Why Linux and Not Windows?

#linux #opensource #cybersecurity #beginners

3 min read

Cover image for 5 Free Open-Source Tools to Make Your Web Development Easier

Dec 27 '24

5 Free Open-Source Tools to Make Your Web Development Easier

#opensource #webdev #development #tooling

3 min read

Abhishek Deshpande

Nov 27 '24

Guide to WP-CLI for WordPress Developers

#wordpress #wpcli #cli #opensource

3 min read

Nov 23 '24

⏳ How I save 10 swe days/year with LLMs

#opensource #llm #ai #codereview

1 min read

Dec 27 '24

hCaptcha, a bot detection tool, usage in Supabase and Chatwoot

#opensource #supabase #hcaptcha

4 min read

Cover image for 16 Best Open Source Software in 2025: From Text Editing to Media Playback - Free Tools Guide🛠🔥🔥

Jan 9 '25

16 Best Open Source Software in 2025: From Text Editing to Media Playback - Free Tools Guide🛠🔥🔥

#programming #webdev #opensource #beginners

9 min read

Cover image for I Found Splito: An Exciting Open-Source Bill-Splitting App

divyesh vekariya

Dec 27 '24

I Found Splito: An Exciting Open-Source Bill-Splitting App

#ios #swiftui #swift #opensource

1 min read

Dl

Nov 23 '24

#OBS MacOS Super Screen Recording supports excluding specific applications for screen recording

#opensource

1 min read

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