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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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moeed-k

Jun 10 '23

Containers, Clusters & K8s: My Experience with DevOps

#devops #opensource

7 min read

Jun 10 '23

Building a GitHub Repository Cloner and Commit Crawler with Go

#go #github #git #opensource

2 min read

Sonu Sharma 💙

Jun 10 '23

Open Source vs Closed Source: The Pros and Cons

#opensource

3 min read

ADAMU MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD

May 20 '23

Geek Ink Progress Discussions with Giscus

#githubhack23 #opensource #community

2 min read

Lotanna Nwose for Convoy

Jun 9 '23

What are Reverse-API Gateways?

#opensource #javascript #node #beginners

3 min read

Anton Rautio for Doctave

May 11 '23

Should You Use Docs-as-Code?

#discuss #writing #api #opensource

4 min read

awalias for Supabase

Jun 9 '23

Supabase Beta May 2023

#supabase #postgres #database #opensource

5 min read

Jun 9 '23

What is Instant Messaging Freedom?

#opensource #repost #history

2 min read

Jun 9 '23

How to Run SQL Trace with ShardingSphere-Agent

#programming #tutorial #opensource #database

7 min read

CGWebDev2003 for Neptune CSS

Jun 9 '23

Getting started with Neptune CSS

#css #beginners #framework #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 7 '23

Integrating Keycloak as my Identity Provider for IAM Identity Centre: Part one, deploying Keycloak on AWS

#opensource #aws #security

15 min read

Zakhar Smirnoff

Jun 8 '23

Running language models on AWS

#devops #opensource #aws #ai

4 min read

OGBONNA SUNDAY for OpenSauced

Jun 7 '23

Leveraging OpenSauced AI to Generate Compelling PR Descriptions

#opensource #openai #github #productivity

2 min read

Jun 7 '23

Weekly web development resources #152

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

May 28 '23

The making of a Google Analytics 4 NPM package.

#typescript #opensource #npm

3 min read

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