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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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Carrie

Oct 22 '24

New Supply Chain Attack Technique Can Trojanize All Commands (Part 2)

#cybersecurity #opensource

5 min read

Carrie

Oct 22 '24

New Supply Chain Attack Technique Can Trojanize All Commands (Part 1)

#cybersecurity #opensource

6 min read

Norbert Dejlich

Oct 18 '24

2024 Hacktoberfest & LiteDevelopers

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

kong

Oct 22 '24

Five Free Security Tools That Will Surprise You

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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Vineel Reddy Pindi

Oct 8 '24

Hacktoberfest with Interledger: Pay the Web Forward

#hacktoberfest #opensource #fintech #web3

4 min read

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Oct 21 '24

Boring Finance: Fancy Record Keeping - Call for all the Open-Source Contributors

#webdev #javascript #opensource #bunjs

3 min read

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Oct 21 '24

How to Become an Open-Source Contributor: A Developer's Guide to Contributing in 2025.

#webdev #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

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Ramy

Oct 19 '24

My PRs in Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 22 '24

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE with BULK COLLECT

#opensource #oracle #fullstack #backend

3 min read

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51 Vaishnavi Raykar

Oct 20 '24

Country Capital Quiz

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev #tolgee

2 min read

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Sébastien Conejo

Oct 20 '24

10 game-changing tools that level up Svelte developers in 2025 💪

#svelte #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

Oct 21 '24

Project management for software projects – 9 features to consider

#opensource #tooling #programming #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

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Oct 28 '24

Rise of the "Microlith": Rethinking Microservices for Modern Developers

#webdev #javascript #opensource #monolith

4 min read

Carrie

Oct 21 '24

Hotel Booking Data Breach of Taiwan Tourists

#cybersecurity #vulnerabilities #opensource

3 min read

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Arindam Majumder for Opire

Oct 15 '24

💸 Make Open Source Contributions More Rewarding with Opire 🤑

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

11 min read

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