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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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Ushieru Kokoran

Mar 15 '22

Total Share

#flutter #spanish #opensource #ushieru

1 min read

gus

Mar 15 '22

6502 Math and Strings Part III

#opensource #assembly #6502 #assemblylanguage

6 min read

Hans Otto Wirtz

Mar 14 '22

Generating sloping 3D models from Chinese characters

#python #openscad #3dprinting #opensource

13 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Mar 14 '22

Get Started: Build, flash, run and control your very first Luos project

#embeddedsystems #devtools #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Nathan

Mar 14 '22

ZAP Add-Ons: The First Step

#java #opensource #apisecurit #blstsecurity

2 min read

Rob

Mar 14 '22

aiowmi - A Python WMI library

#python #wmi #windows #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 14 '22

Nuxt Black Dashboard - Free Product

#nuxt #vue #dashboards #opensource

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Mar 9 '22

Open source ecommerce platform for multi-vendor marketplaces

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

19 min read

Tue

Mar 13 '22

Touching more Jest tests

#opensource

2 min read

Hakan Yalitekin

Mar 16 '22

Docusaurus ile Harika Dokümanlar Oluşturalım

#documentation #wiki #opensource #docusaurus

6 min read

Mar 12 '22

File Compresser 2.0.0 is here

#php #programming #opensource #github

3 min read

Jay Gohil

Mar 12 '22

Best Discord Dev Communities to Join.

#opensource #webdev #discord #devjournal

2 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

Mar 11 '22

Deploying Functions Just Got Easier with Appwrite CLI 2.0!

#opensource #javascript #tutorial #programming

5 min read

Mar 11 '22

Introducing Golang Masking Tool To Mask Away your sensitive information

#go #secret #pii #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 11 '22

Contributing to the Apache Airflow project - part two

#opensource

10 min read

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