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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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Andrzej Krzywda

Aug 2 '22

Unblocking my blogging - recent progress at Arkency Ecommerce project

#blogging #rails #opensource #ddd

2 min read

Aug 2 '22

The Simplest Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrencies.

#blockchain #web3 #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 2 '22

Edge and Embedded Community Site Now Available for Distributed Systems Developers to Share Knowledge

#opensource #microservices #systems #luos

1 min read

Nathan

Aug 1 '22

How Open-Source community Can give you a Job?

#beginners #programming #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Mazahir

Aug 2 '22

I made yet another habit tracker in flutter.

#flutter #beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Yash Hegde

Aug 1 '22

Understanding Containers: Docker

#tutorial #devops #opensource #docker

8 min read

Eduard Constantin

Aug 1 '22

Navigation menu animation

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Gabriel Taveira

Aug 1 '22

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About React Native Modals

#reactnative #opensource #javascript #tutorial

6 min read

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

Aug 1 '22

Getting Started with Fedora Silverblue

#linux #tutorial #opensource

9 min read

Unicorn Developer

Aug 1 '22

How warnings simplify your code

#cpp #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Aug 1 '22

HTTP Request Inspector - Capture and inspect HTTP requests.

#opensource #javascript #github #tutorial

2 min read

Aug 1 '22

Write search queries with Python and OpenSearch®

#opensearch #opensource #python #elasticsearch

4 min read

SeaQL

Aug 1 '22

Engineering at SeaQL.org

#opensource #github #githunt #rust

4 min read

Rubem Vasconcelos

Jul 31 '22

Configure Aplicações React Usando Arquitetura Limpa com Apenas Um Comando

#webdev #braziliandevs #opensource #react

1 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jul 28 '22

Magento alternative: How it compares with Medusa, a JavaScript-based ecommerce platform

#programming #webdev #opensource #javascript

12 min read

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