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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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Nov 24

Building Container Images Without Docker: Introducing pycontainer-build

#python #docker #devops #opensource

6 min read

Nov 24

Do not let your code turn into sausage that goes beyond screen

#csharp #programming #opensource

4 min read

Nov 24

why i built yet another todo app

#showdev #opensource #productivity #localfirst

4 min read

Sivaprasad Murali

Nov 24

Vargula: Terminal Styling with Color Theory & Accessibility Built In

#python #terminal #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Nov 24

Stop Paying for SaaS: The Ultimate Open Source "Free Stack" 💸

#showdev #opensource #productivity #webdev

2 min read

Nov 24

Building Live Code Knowledge Graph: AST Layer Is Coming Alive

#secrin #ai #architecture #opensource

1 min read

Malar Kondappan

Nov 24

Teaching AI to Read Emotions: Science, Challenges, and Innovation Behind Facial Emotion Detection with YOLOv11 on Raspberry Pi

#raspberrypi #computervision #yolo11 #opensource

4 min read

Malar Kondappan

Nov 24

Building a Password Strength Analyzer with Entropy and Crack Time for Beginners

#security #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Sui Gn

Nov 24

Declarative Identity and Emergent Semantic Spaces (Tech Spec)

#webdev #programming #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Nolan Lwin

Nov 23

AI in Legacy Code Modernization

#ai #opensource #coding #agents

3 min read

Nov 24

Announcing SvelteKit OG v4: An alternative to @vercel/og for sveltekit

#webdev #svelte #sveltekit #opensource

4 min read

Nov 24

Apache Dev List Digest: Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow & Parquet (Nov 18–24, 2025)

#news #dataengineering #opensource

5 min read

Meysam

Nov 24

Awesome Directories launches on Product Hunt THIS FRIDAY

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #programming

1 min read

Steve

Nov 23

The Story of Archi: an Archimate Tool; The Pedantic Defense: How 'Legal' Gatekeeping Violates the Spirit of Open Source

#opensource #licensing #mitlicense #ethics

3 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Nov 24

Democratizing AI: Teaching LLMs to Think with Simple Steps

#ai #llm #programming #opensource

2 min read

PikaPods

Nov 24

🧐 Cyber Monday Reality Check for Devs

#opensource #smartspending #webdev

1 min read

nchika

Nov 23

Building Tornago: A Go Library for Tor Integration Born from Fraud Prevention Needs

#showdev #opensource #go #tor

8 min read

Nov 24

Update: More CIR PR's and Release 0.3

#cpp #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Nov 23

SteadyFetch: A tiny Android SDK that refuses to let your downloads die

#android #kotlin #opensource #networking

3 min read