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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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Mar 17 '22

Public APIs situation

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

2 min read

Rohith V

Mar 20 '22

Graph Algorithm - Cycle Detection in Undirected Graph using BFS

#programming #career #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Mar 15 '22

Create Your Open Source Ecommerce Store using Medusa and Next.js

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Voltra

Mar 19 '22

My views on Open Source

#discuss #opensource #philosophy

2 min read

Mar 20 '22

Magento Review

#discuss #webdev #php #opensource

2 min read

Paul C. Ishaili

Mar 19 '22

FAQS when learning React - Beginner!

#discuss #react #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 16 '22

Material Dashboard React - Open-Source Template

#react #material #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Voltra

Mar 17 '22

Fakerjs, colors, node-ipc... Why developers cannot be trusted

#nodeipc #protestware #deontology #opensource

2 min read

Emanuelle Pharand

Mar 19 '22

The LadyK Project

#opensource #github #azure #vscode

1 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 18 '22

Chakra UI Starters - Open-Source and FREE

#chakraui #react #opensource

4 min read

Cecelia Martinez for Replay

Mar 18 '22

Debugging TypeScript using Replay

#typescript #debugging #opensource #node

5 min read

Mwendwa Bundi Emma

Mar 18 '22

I spoke at the Sri Lanka Institute of IT...#opensource

#opensource #womeninopensource #programming #speaking

2 min read

Mar 18 '22

2 free data security tools every dev should know (and use)

#security #appsec #encryption #opensource

2 min read

Mar 18 '22

Understanding Version Control System

#git #vcs #opensource #versioncontrolsystem

4 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 17 '22

Black Design - Curated List with FREE Dashboards

#black #opensource

4 min read

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