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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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Kaushik Varanasi

Aug 30 '22

How to build a real-time movie voting system using React.js 🤯

#showdev #react #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Sep 4 '22

Track Anyone's IP Address using Python

#python #opensource #api #programming

1 min read

Sep 3 '22

Creating an Operating System: The Journey

#programming #osdev #assembly #opensource

5 min read

Buddhadeb Chhetri

Sep 3 '22

10 Useful Android Library for Every New Developer

#android #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 2 '22

AWS open source news and updates #125

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Aug 30 '22

How to handle dart application exceptions ?

#dart #monitoring #opensource #testing

2 min read

Elliot Lee for RippleX Developers

Sep 2 '22

Help Build the Future of the XRPL with Bounties

#blockchain #xrpl #opensource #bounty

3 min read

Archer Allstars

Aug 30 '22

Linux openSUSE Tumbleweed review in 2022, the best distro for both newbies and pros

#opensource #beginners #productivity #linux

14 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Sep 2 '22

🤔Imagine your system with independent pieces of code.

#opensource #microservices #luos

1 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Aug 31 '22

Open Source is not only writing code 🙅‍♂️🧑‍💻

#opensource #github #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Devarshi Shimpi

Sep 2 '22

How Fast Is Bun.sh After All?

#webdev #javascript #node #opensource

4 min read

Eldad A. Fux for Appwrite

Sep 1 '22

Announcing New Versions for Appwrite's Flutter and Dart SDKs

#flutter #mobile #programming #opensource

2 min read

Liran Tal for Snyk

Sep 5 '22

The npm faker package and the unexpected demise of open source libraries

#dependencyhealth #opensource #opensourcesecurity

10 min read

Sep 1 '22

How to get phone number information using Python ?

#python #opensource #programming #machinelearning

1 min read

Manuel Schröder for Storyblok

Sep 1 '22

Announcing @storyblok/astro

#astro #sdk #integration #opensource

3 min read

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