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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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Kyle Homen

Oct 3

OSD600 Lab 4

#cpp #cli #opensource

4 min read

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睿廷洪

Oct 4

I built a Chrome extension that lets you automatically solve CAPTCHAs with Google Gemini — and it’s totally FREE!

#showdev #opensource #automation #gemini

1 min read

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Nivethithaa Saravanavel

Oct 8

linux - cd,ls,Hard&Soft Link

#ubuntu #opensource #learning #linux

2 min read

Praanesh S

Oct 7

☕ coffee.tmux: A Modern tmux Plugin Manager

#tmux #coffeetmux #opensource #terminal

4 min read

Oct 4

Adding TOML Config Support and Reviewing PRs

#git #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

Gunner Andersen

Oct 3

Tired of Rewriting Web3 Integrations? Help us grow M3S, the New Modular Open-Source Standard

#programming #web3 #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Oct 3

How to get and use free PVS-Studio license. Part 3: working with report and warnings

#freelicense #programming #opensource #osu

9 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Winnie

Oct 3

Open Source Contribution

#opensource #hacktoberfest #onlydust #web3

3 min read

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Ankit M

Oct 7

Why Game Preservation Is the Next Big Tech Responsibility

#webdev #opensource #gamechallenge #unity3d

4 min read

Oct 3

Just made a new Clicker game

#opensource

1 min read

terryncew

Oct 2

Small receipts. Big accountability. A tiny JSON that makes AI runs legible.

#devops #opensource #machinelearning #ai

1 min read

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momina raheel (Moona)

Oct 3

Day 23 of My 90 Days Python Series – Number System Converter

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Justin E. Samuels for RenderATL

Oct 1

The Open Source World Is About to Get a Surprise 👀

#hacktoberfest #opensource #announcements #programming

1 min read

Oct 3

Flag namespace in Opencode codebase.

#truthy #opensource

2 min read

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nyaomaru

Oct 5

Build isXXX the Easy Way? Meet is-kit

#typescript #opensource #util #programming

2 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Pato for Cloudinary

Oct 10

Hacktoberfest 2025: Open Source Celebration With Cloudinary

#hacktoberfest #cloudinary #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Oct 2

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: Updates for python-nspektr and rapidyaml

#archlinux #opensource #cpp #python

2 min read

Oct 2

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: Updates for python-nspektr and rapidyaml

#archlinux #opensource #cpp #python

2 min read

Андрей Воробъев

Oct 2

Just launched: UmkaBuild GUI — a soulful Python-to-EXE builder

#python #opensource #automation

1 min read

Steven Hur

Oct 2

My First Pull Request for Open Source Project

#codenewbie #github #opensource #devjournal

1 min read

Leanid Herasimau

Oct 3

Red Hat confirmed a breach of its internal GitLab server

#news #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Faye Hall

Oct 2

Tinker Terms Readiness Checklist

#thinkingmachine #ai #opensource #tinker

1 min read

Leanid Herasimau

Oct 3

OpenSSL 3.6.0 Released

#news #opensource #security #tooling

4 min read

AskPaul

Oct 2

Enhancing MiroFlow: Tracking Data Sources for AskPaul App

#ai #architecture #opensource

2 min read

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Krzysztof Nowicki

Oct 2

DocWire SDK New Release: Turning Pipelines into Secure HTTP Services

#cpp #opensource #cloudnative #http

2 min read

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