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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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omilli

Jun 20

HellaJS - A Tiny Reactive Framework

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jun 15

GSoC 2025 – Week 2: Comparator and Pull Resistor Implementation

#gsoc2025 #opensource #circuitverse

2 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Jun 19

Handling password-protected PDFs in Javascript

#pdf #javascript #security #opensource

6 min read

member_43440929

Jun 14

🚀 Just Launched: InkSpire – A Smart Blogging Platform for Developers

#webdev #ai #react #opensource

1 min read

tsmztech

Jun 14

Salesforce MCP Server: Integrate AI with Salesforce Using Natural Language

#salesforce #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Jun 18

I Passed the CNPA Exam - Here’s Everything You Need to Know

#cloudnative #devops #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14

AttributeStyle Performance Optimization and Benchmarking: The Path to Efficient UI Rendering

#harmonyosnext #arkts #opensource

4 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14

AttributeStyle Custom Adapter Development Guide: From Theory to Practice

#harmonyosnext #opensource

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14

AttributeStyle Style Composition Mechanism: Building a Flexible and Reusable UI Style System

#harmonyosnext #opensource #arkts

3 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14

AttributeStyle Core Technology Analysis: UI Style Reuse Solution Based on HarmonyOS NEXT

#opensource #harmonyosnext #arkts

2 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14

AttributeStyle State Management System: Building Responsive UI Interaction Experiences

#opensource #harmonyos #arkts

3 min read

Jun 14

🚀 One Month In: Cerious Widgets Hits 500+ Downloads!

#angular #datatable #opensource #grid

2 min read

Jun 13

From Speech to Text: A Guide to IBM Granite Speech for Audio Transcriptions

#granite #huggingface #opensource #stt

6 min read

Team Omnistrate

Jun 18

From Open Source to SaaS: Turning AI Innovation into Scalable Products

#aws #saas #ai #opensource

1 min read

Tom

Jun 13

Snippai: An AI-Powered Screenshot Tool to Replace Snagit, Snipaste, and ShareX

#ai #javascript #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Jun 12

React Native 0.80 Oficial: Saiu! O Que Mudou de Verdade?

#react #reactnative #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 12

DeadLock - dead.lock file

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

1 min read

Eric

Jun 12

PIDM - python internet download manager

#programming #python #pidm #opensource

2 min read

Ashraf

Jun 12

How I Built a Reusable Fetch Hook in React and Published It to npm

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Neo Meng

Jun 12

A new OpenSource java decompiler

#c #java #decompiler #opensource

1 min read

DASWU

Jun 12

NFS to JuiceFS: Building a Scalable Storage Platform for LLM Training & Inference

#opensource

9 min read

EvoAgentX

Jun 12

🌟 EvoAgentX's First Community Call: A Great Milestone Achieved! 🌟

#programming #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jun 12

How to Seamlessly Integrate SeaTunnel MySQL-CDC with Databend: Formats Explained & Best Practices

#programming #apacheseatunnel #opensource #mysql

10 min read

Jun 12

📚 Did you know that the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS) rebuilt their entire online encyclopedia using XWiki?

#news #productivity #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Dev

Jun 16

🚀 Open Source Flutter Restaurant POS – Looking for Contributors!

#flutter #opensource #dart #postgressql

1 min read

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