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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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OmarDev100

Jun 22 '22

Introducing CodeGuard: The open-source tool to obfuscate your JavaScript or Python code

#javascript #webdev #python #opensource

3 min read

Sm0ke

Jun 18 '22

React Horizon UI - Open-Source Full-Stack Starter

#react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Kevin Lin for Dendron Inc

Jun 21 '22

Dendron 100

#pkm #opensource #devjournal #vscode

4 min read

Brandon Roberts for NgRx

Jun 20 '22

Announcing NgRx v14: Action Groups, ComponentStore Lifecycle Hooks, ESLint package, Revamped NgRx Component, and more!

#angular #ngrx #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jun 21 '22

Embedded services have many advantages over traditional code

#embedded #microservices #luos #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 20 '22

Upgrading my AWS CDK stacks to AWS CDKv2

#opensource #aws

9 min read

Ben Lloyd Pearson for Mattermost

Jun 21 '22

Open Source News: June 2022

#opensource #security

4 min read

Nicolas Fränkel

Jun 20 '22

Taking VSCodium for a spin

#vscode #opensource #vscodium #ide

3 min read

Jun 21 '22

Deep Insight Into Open Source Databases

#opensource #database #github #sql

5 min read

Jun 30 '22

Utility bill payment and airtime topup with Golang

#go #tutorial #programming #opensource

2 min read

Krishna Agarwal

Jun 17 '22

Which is your most visited website?

#discuss #beginners #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jun 20 '22

Material Dashboard Laravel Livewire - Free Product

#webdev #laravel #opensource

2 min read

Rizèl Scarlett

Jun 17 '22

How do you make folks who sponsor your open source projects feel valued?

#discuss #opensource #career #github

1 min read

Jun 20 '22

Introducing the Offen Consent Tool

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Sm0ke

Jun 20 '22

React App Generator - Soft UI Dashboard (free service)

#webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

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