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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 19 '24

The Problem of Knowledge Debt in Tech

#opensource

5 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

Sep 10 '24

21 Developer Tools to Improve Your Daily Life as Developer ⚡🎁

#opensource #programming #webdev #productivity

26 min read

observIQ

Aug 15 '24

Navigating Open Source Software: All Your Questions Answered

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #sql

7 min read

Evangelos Meklis

Sep 14 '24

My first open-source project built with Python to inspect databases through CLI fast

#python #database #opensource #github

1 min read

Syakir

Sep 12 '24

17 Best Free React Admin Template 2024 to Speed up Your Web App Development 🚀

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

5 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 11 '24

Rocket - The Rust Web Framework - Hello World

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

2 min read

Peter Wan

Sep 14 '24

Dev log: gimme_readme 0.1 release

#osd600 #opensource #ai #javascript

6 min read

Sep 13 '24

Zero Configuration laravel Role Permission Setup 🔥🤩

#laravel #php #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Sep 13 '24

Modern Financial Terminal - V0.1.2

#opensource #python #career #android

1 min read

Alexander Bangert

Sep 13 '24

Simplify Form Controls in Flutter with the FForm Package 🚀

#opensource #flutter

6 min read

Faruk

Sep 13 '24

Open-Source Ai Model Training Platform Database

#database #opensource #openai #ai

5 min read

Sep 13 '24

The Hexagonal Code: How Uber Finds You Fast!

#opensource #algorithms #startup #design

1 min read

Lulu

Sep 13 '24

How to Configure and Use SafeLine's Syslog for Real-Time Attack Logging

#cybersecurity #webdev #opensource #waf

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 12 '24

The Human Dependency Graph: Why We Need to Rethink Security in Open Source

#opensource #security

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 14 '24

SafeLine WAF: The Ultimate Lightweight Web Application Firewall for Security

#cybersecurity #security #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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