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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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Reaper

Sep 22 '22

IntelOwl 101

#tutorial #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Sep 21 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022 is almost there! Get ready!

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 19 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #127

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Alex Patterson for Appwrite

Sep 19 '22

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose To Support Homebrew

#opensource #content #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 18 '22

Build services in Django without coding (free product)

#django #nocode #opensource

2 min read

Archer Allstars

Sep 18 '22

Make openSUSE work with Chromecast, getting to know your firewall zone in Linux.

#linux #opensource #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Sep 18 '22

palpatine 0.1.0

#showdev #cpp #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Eakam

Sep 19 '22

rost_gen - A simple static site generator

#opensource #rust

2 min read

Sep 18 '22

Public APIs are not really public anymore

#opensource #api #github #webdev

1 min read

Sep 18 '22

Free as in Cats

#opensource

2 min read

Aldi Fianda Putra

Sep 18 '22

Deploying Multicontainer Application on Openshift

#devops #opensource #kubernetes

4 min read

Andrew Schmelyun

Sep 18 '22

Intercept and inspect http requests with reqon

#showdev #tools #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 16 '22

Flask OAuth, Dark-Mode, Docker - Free BS5 Starter

#flask #opensource #dashboards

4 min read

Tessa Mero for Appwrite

Sep 16 '22

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose to Sponsor Front-End Foxes

#appwrite #vue #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Sep 17 '22

Filing Issues on GitHub

#opensource #python #github #git

5 min read

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