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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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Narasimha Prasanna HN

Jul 15 '22

Check out my new programming language called - Boson, written in Rust!

#rust #tutorial #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Atulpriya Sharma

Jul 15 '22

Setup Paralus on Kind Cluster

#kubernetes #opensource

5 min read

Peter H. Boling

Jul 14 '22

Life After Github?

#git #github #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Rob OLeary

Jul 11 '22

The best password manager on Linux?

#linux #productivity #opensource #security

9 min read

muneebbug

Jul 12 '22

Open Source backend in just 1 File

#go #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Richard Dobroň

Jul 14 '22

How to generate PHP enums from database in Laravel?

#php #opensource #tutorial #laravel

2 min read

Jul 14 '22

Announcing Zapp! Build Flutter apps in browser

#flutter #dart #tooling #opensource

4 min read

Daniel

Jul 13 '22

How Open Source Can Help You Level Up as a Developer

#beginners #github #opensource #career

4 min read

Richard Dobroň

Jul 13 '22

How to easily call JavaScript modules from PHP?

#php #laravel #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Peter H. Boling

Jul 7 '22

I'm leaving Github

#discuss #git #github #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 12 '22

Using Terraform to configure and deploy Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) environments

#opensource #terraform #aws

13 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 13 '22

Develop a simple Morse encoder

#embedded #opensource #luos #tutorial

1 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Jul 13 '22

ShardingSphere Cloud Applications: An out-of-the-box ShardingSphere-Proxy Cluster

#cloud #database #opensource #saas

5 min read

Tomer Barnea for novu

Jul 6 '22

Building an open-source company in public

#podcast #productivity #opensource #startup

4 min read

Hung Vu

Jul 9 '22

12 Free Headless CMSs for Blogs and Portfolio sites 💗

#tutorial #webdev #programming #opensource

19 min read

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