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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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Massimiliano Donini

Jan 19 '23

Terraform Tips & Tricks: Managing Large-Scale Azure Resource Imports

#discuss #opensource #career

8 min read

Blake Lamb

Jan 19 '23

TypeScript's "Omit" Utility Type

#opensource #integrations #github #developers

3 min read

Oguzhan

Jan 19 '23

Cactus UI — Accessibility focused react component library

#opensource #a11y #react #webdev

6 min read

Alef Ojeda de Oliveira

Jan 19 '23

Ruby - Similarity

#softwareengineering #architecture #opensource #career

3 min read

Sergio Ocón-Cárdenas for Kubeshop

Jan 19 '23

Kubernetes cluster management with Monokle

#opensource #softwareengineering #devops #productivity

6 min read

Jan 19 '23

Portswigger’s lab write up: CORS vulnerability with trusted null origin

#showdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Chirag (Srce Cde) for AWS Community Builders

Jan 19 '23

Automatically stop EC2 instances over the weekend

#opensource #testing #github #contributorswanted

4 min read

Mike Tyson of the Cloud

Jan 19 '23

4 useful Terraform open-source tools

#opensource #terraform #ci #aws

2 min read

Benjamin Bryant

Jan 19 '23

Building Communities - Women in Cloud Native

#community #learning #cloud #opensource

6 min read

Ivan Savu

Jan 19 '23

Introducing VeloxDB

#dotnet #database #performance #opensource

4 min read

Quazi Mohammad Aldin Fardin

Jan 19 '23

How To install Laravel 9x on your Ubuntu

#discuss #productivity #opensource #github

1 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Jan 19 '23

Disrupting the Node caching panorama - Our Journey In The Open Source World - cache-candidate

#javascript #typescript #opensource #github

7 min read

Jan 18 '23

Fun and Useful CLI Tools for Linux

#linux #programming #opensource #bash

2 min read

Kinsta

Jan 18 '23

Our Top 5 Picks for the Best Open Source Database Software

#database #webdev #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jan 17 '23

Deploy your React App on GitHub

#discuss #programming #opensource #go

3 min read

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