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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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Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Mar 15 '24

What is Hyperswitch

#discuss #payments #programming #opensource

2 min read

Schalk Neethling

Mar 14 '24

You're Installing Node.js Wrong. That's OK, Here Is How To Fix It 🙌

#webdev #opensource #node #security

3 min read

Square Db - Enhance your DB with a very fast DB!

Feb 11 '24

Why Rust is the Almighty Language for Building DBMS? 🛠️

#squaredb #opensource #productivity #rust

2 min read

Katie Liu

Feb 23 '24

ChatCraft week 7: New issue, new provider?

#chatcraft #chatgpt #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Mar 4 '24

Navigating the Future of Open Source Security: Insights from Industry Leaders

#cybersecurity #opensource #finance #future

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Mar 12 '24

Scaling Open Source Projects: Navigating Challenges

#opensource #productivity

7 min read

Fahmi Mahmud Maliki for GGL Tech

Mar 15 '24

Getting Started with Tinode: An Open-Source Messaging Platform

#opensource #chat #tinode #docker

4 min read

Daniil Bazhenov

Mar 13 '24

A New Way to Provision Databases on Kubernetes

#kubernetes #database #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Mar 14 '24

What we built for our Notification Service?

#discuss #watercooler #react #opensource

1 min read

Mar 14 '24

Lessons from open-source: Partytown — a library that uses web worker to run third party scripts.

#javascript #node #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Elie

Mar 14 '24

Inside the Open-Source Novu Notification Engine

#opensource #typescript #redis #bullmq

8 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Mar 14 '24

What happens when you click pay now?

#hyperswitch #opensource #rust #payments

3 min read

Best Verie Iradukunda

Mar 14 '24

Exploring Python: Everything is an Object

#python #programming #object #opensource

2 min read

LousyCake

Mar 3 '24

Unleashing YTStatsAnalyzerGo: A Go-Powered Dive into YouTube Channel Insights

#go #youtube #dataanalysis #opensource

2 min read

Heather Stevens for Bitovi

Mar 13 '24

Introducing Hatchify: Low-code libraries for React, Node, and Sequelize

#opensource #typescript #sql #node

4 min read

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