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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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Jul 25 '24

6 Popover Examples Fully-Coded with Tailwind CSS [Free& Open Source]

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mudunuri bhaskara karthikeya varma

Jul 25 '24

🚀 New Release: SaaS Landing Page Template in Eldora UI! 🌟💻

#webdev #opensource #react #beginners

2 min read

Jul 23 '24

EchoVault: Embeddable Redis Alternative in Go

#showdev #go #redis #opensource

5 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Jul 23 '24

Lifetimes in Rust explained

#beginners #programming #opensource #rust

2 min read

Luna

Jul 25 '24

NVIDIA Fully Using Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules in Upcoming Driver Release!

#news #linux #gpu #opensource

1 min read

Adeniji Olajide

Jul 25 '24

Welcome to Virtual Bank: Your Simulated Banking Platform

#opensource #django #webdev #api

5 min read

Mateus V. Farias

Jul 24 '24

Generating GPG Keys and Signing Commits

#opensource #tooling #privacy #webdev

2 min read

Riccardo Gregori

Jul 25 '24

PACX ⁓ WebResource Management Commands - Push

#powerplatform #webresources #github #opensource

5 min read

Gabriel L. Manor

Jul 24 '24

7 Developer Tools to Prepare Your Stack for the GenAI Era

#opensource #productivity #ai #coding

5 min read

Jul 23 '24

How I implemented Access Approval to Our Open Source Project

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #javascript

9 min read

Lulu

Jul 24 '24

SafeLine - Secure Your Web Applications

#github #opensource #cybersecurity #waf

2 min read

Dmitry K

Jul 24 '24

Insights into AI Benchmarking with Release of Llama 3.1

#news #chatgpt #opensource #ai

1 min read

Riccardo Gregori

Jul 24 '24

PACX ⁓ WebResource Management Commands - Create JS

#powerplatform #webresources #github #opensource

2 min read

Jing

Jun 24 '24

Automated API testing made easy with AREX

#programming #opensource #testing

3 min read

Jul 23 '24

Building a Pomodoro app

#mobile #android #opensource

1 min read

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