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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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Sam

Dec 16 '22

Learn git in less than 5 minutes and use it for 5 years

#git #beginners #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Vlad Hilko

Dec 15 '22

How to implement Dependency Injection Pattern in Ruby On Rails?

#github #opensource

4 min read

AKSH DESAI

Dec 16 '22

react useMemo() hook - webdev simplified

#buildinpublic #community #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 15 '22

Free Service - Python Converter & Generator

#generator #appseed #converter #opensource

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Dec 20 '22

Exploring the Spring Security authorization bypass (CVE-2022-31692)

#java #security #opensource

5 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Dec 4 '22

Progress on contribution

#opensource #webdev #design #beginners

2 min read

Leonard Püttmann for Kern AI

Dec 15 '22

How we managed to build our open-source content library crazy fast

#nlp #machinelearning #datascience #opensource

5 min read

Dec 15 '22

How To License Open Source Code Properly

#gpl #opensource #license #management

17 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 13 '22

Free Python Converter Tool - DataFrames, OpenAPI, CSV to Models, DataTables

#python #webdev #openapi #opensource

2 min read

Dec 15 '22

Day 15: Failing CI to help fixing filesystem issues in a Python package

#python #opensource #github #testing

2 min read

YJDoc2

Dec 14 '22

Announcing Youki 0.0.4 🎉🎉🎉

#rust #opensource #devops #tooling

1 min read

Chandler for Casual Coders

Dec 14 '22

My favorite Python packages!

#discuss #python #tooling #opensource

4 min read

Sidharth Mohanty

Dec 15 '22

My Internship Journey at Dragonfruit AI

#discuss #ai #opensource

4 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Dec 13 '22

5 best open source platforms for B2B ecommerce

#javascript #opensource #webdev #programming

12 min read

Sergey Vasiliev

Dec 14 '22

.NET 7: suspicious places and errors in the source code

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #programming

14 min read

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