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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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Dima Grossman for novu

May 11 '22

Our open-source project got funded!

#news #javascript #opensource

2 min read

NIRANJAN LAMICHHANE

May 20 '22

Why I never returned back to windows after using linux ?

#linux #opensource

2 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

May 20 '22

Cloud Functions Using the New Kotlin Runtime

#kotlin #opensource #serverless #cloud

6 min read

Aldrich Heinz Alvarez

May 20 '22

Why You Should Drop Shopify for Medusa, An Open Source Alternative

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

7 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 19 '22

Create an Open Source Ecommerce Marketplace Part 2: Vender-Specific Orders

#opensource #javascript #programming #webdev

15 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

May 20 '22

Using and contributing to open source software is often done in the workplace.

#opensource #github #luos #edge

1 min read

Akshat for Openware

May 20 '22

Let's Launch a Crypto Exchange Brokerage Using Open-Source OpenDAX with Yellow Network Liquidity

#opensource #crypto #node #nextjs

6 min read

Astrodevil

May 19 '22

Some Useful GitHub Repositories To Enhance Your Web3 Skills

#web3 #webdev #github #opensource

3 min read

May 20 '22

Why Choose TiDB to Support OSS Insight

#discuss #github #tidb #opensource

4 min read

Felix DUSENGIMANA

May 19 '22

How to Enable Dark Mode in Chrome on Ubuntu(No Code, Apps, Themes).

#opensource

2 min read

Eldad A. Fux for Appwrite

May 17 '22

Announcing Appwrite 0.14 with 11 Cloud Function Runtimes! 🥳

#news #opensource #cloud #webdev

6 min read

Sm0ke

May 18 '22

CodedThemes - Free Products (React, Angular, Bootstrap)

#opensource #codedthemes #webdev

3 min read

Daniel Bass for Permit.io

May 19 '22

OPAL + OPA VS XACML

#opensource #xacml #opa #authorization

7 min read

Brandon Roberts for Appwrite

May 18 '22

Getting Started with Appwrite on YouTube! 🎥

#appwrite #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

May 19 '22

Closures in JavaScirpt

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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