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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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Saurabh Rai for Apideck

Apr 28

Beginner's Guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

#programming #beginners #ai #opensource

6 min read

Arindam Majumder

Apr 28

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

#mcp #devto #python #opensource

3 min read

Oleksandr Dehtiarov

Apr 28

Telegram Mini Apps: Key Trends and Business Opportunities for 2025

#opensource #telegram #api

6 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 28

Linux Boot Process

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

4 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Apr 28

Metabase 54: Table visualization improvements, smarter custom expression editor, better alerts, and more

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

6 min read

Apr 28

🎬 Linux Permissions: The Sitcom You Didn’t Know You Were Starring In

#beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

3 min read

Apr 28

🚀 Live Chat Support Starter Kit — Open Source!

#opensource #nextjs #socketio #webdev

1 min read

Webb

Apr 28

The Fread Project is Now Open Source, Based on Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform

#programming #opensource #kotlin #android

2 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 28

Leveling Up — Linux Commands You’ll Actually Use (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource