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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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Purneswar Prasad

Aug 29 '24

Polyfills - a filler or a gaping hole? (Part-2)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #cybersecurity

5 min read

Sep 27 '24

LINUX Systems Under Attack via Printing System (CUPS)

#security #linux #opensource #ubuntu

5 min read

Abby Nduta

Sep 28 '24

Debugging DevStack

#opensource #openstack #webdev #cloud

2 min read

Sep 28 '24

Monetizing GitHub Issue resolutions with BountyHub

#showdev #github #opensource #startup

3 min read

ThemeSelection for ThemeSelection

Oct 1 '24

FlyonUI - An Open Source Tailwind CSS Component Library is Live 🚀

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource #webcomponents

6 min read

Gorakhnath Yadav for Hyperswitch

Sep 27 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 with Hyperswitch

#digitalpayments #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Sep 28 '24

Merge TIME!

#opensource #java #ai

2 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Sep 27 '24

Docwire SDK -C++20 library for advanced data processing

#news #cpp #opensource #programming

3 min read

Sep 27 '24

5 Open Source Alternatives to Your Favorite Software and Apps.

#opensource #webdev #coding #productivity

2 min read

Golf-Lang

Sep 27 '24

Overview of Golf, new web services language (Apache license)

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Vignesh J

Sep 27 '24

🌟 Join the Open Source Community on Discord! 🚀

#vigneshdevhub #opensource #community #discord

2 min read

Dan Barr for Stacklok

Sep 27 '24

This Month in Minder: September 2024

#opensource #security #devops

1 min read

Sep 27 '24

Quick Start with the Angular 18.1 Sample Project - A Simple and Practical Solution for Developers!

#angular #frontend #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Sep 26 '24

Collaborate using Pull Requests

#git #beginners #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Rajni Rethesh for Middleware

Sep 26 '24

Flutter’s Engineering Pipeline: A Great Workflow with Minor Hiccups

#webdev #flutter #devops #opensource

7 min read

DASWU

Sep 27 '24

Ollama + JuiceFS: Pull Once, Run Anywhere

#ai #opensource

8 min read

Sep 26 '24

Behind the Code: Planning Hacktoberfest at Hyperswitch

#hacktoberfest #opensource #hyperswitch #planning

4 min read

Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Sep 26 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 is here! 🎃

#devchallenge #hacktoberfestchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Sep 27 '24

Fast-Forward merge VS Three-Way Recursive merge

#javascript #opensource #github #cli

3 min read

Natalie Fagundo for Inductor

Sep 26 '24

Open sourcing our new Text-to-SQL LLM app starter template

#opensource #sql #ai #database

6 min read

Sep 26 '24

Start Contributing to Open Source: A Beginner's Guide

#opensource #webdev #beginners #learning

3 min read

Job Ready Programmer

Sep 26 '24

Will you be working from home FOREVER?

#productivity #opensource #career #learning

6 min read

Ben Greenberg for Couchbase

Sep 23 '24

Hacktoberfest: The Couchbase Quest Awaits—Are You Ready?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #database #couchbase

7 min read

Sep 6 '24

Terminal-Integrated Coding Assistant

#opensource #openai #cli

1 min read

Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com for Litlyx

Sep 26 '24

Litlyx - Introducing Funnel Events

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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