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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 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

Fábio Matavelli

Mar 18 '22

Using Terraform setproduct function

#terraform #programming #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mar 16 '22

Progrium Technology Thesis

#showdev #programming #opensource

7 min read

Cassidy Williams for Remote

Apr 4 '22

Introducing React URL Modal

#react #modal #opensource

1 min read

Mar 17 '22

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Cheat Sheet (Part 1/2)☁️⛅

#aws #cloud #devops #opensource

11 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 16 '22

Soft UI Design System - Free Resources and Starters

#softui #opensource #creativetim

4 min read

Melih Ekinci for Refine

Mar 17 '22

ReactJS Frameworks You Should Know Before Start Developing B2B/Internal Application

#javascript #opensource #react #webdev

4 min read

Pieter Humphrey for DataStax, an IBM company

Mar 17 '22

How DataStax Tracked Down a Linux Kernel Bug with Fallout

#performance #testing #programming #opensource

13 min read

ThemeSelection for ThemeSelection

Mar 17 '22

Materio Open Source React Admin Template Is Out Now...!!🎉

#react #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Mar 17 '22

Cherrybomb v0.5.0

#rust #openapi #opensource

1 min read

DMetaSoul

Mar 17 '22

A new unified streaming and batch table storage solution similar to iceberg/hudi/delta lake but with several new functions

#dataengineering #opensource #bigdata #programming

2 min read

Mar 17 '22

🚨 Introducing a python package that helps with machine learning feature engineering during the pandemic! lockdowndates🔥

#showdev #python #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 7 '22

Flutter widget to create a group of buttons fast ✈️

#flutter #dart #opensource #android

3 min read

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